Monday, June 29, 2015

Move to Oklahoma NOT Nevada

Grandma Ellen spent many years in Oklahoma at The Home of Redeeming Love with Aunt Bertha and Aunt Hilda. They were very strict and were devoted Free Methodists.  It was in Oklahoma where Grandma Ellen Attended Nurses training. Naomi ("Omi") had lived there for 2 years previously and Aunt Bertha wanted Helen and Ellen to move there to join them. I was surprised to discover that Grandma didn't want to go to Oklahoma like her twin Helen did. She had decided that she was going to move to Nevada where her oldest sister Esther was living with her husband Willis. Willis' brother Wayne had arranged to come pick up Grandma Ellen, Wayne had arrived and Grandma was about to leave for Las Vegas to be a waitress at the Naval Base where Esther lived but her Mama told Wayne Ellen wasn't going to Nevada she told wayne to "Get on out of there, get going" and he left and Grandma Ellen was left and sent to Oklahoma.  

Aunt Bertha worked placing babies from unmarried mothers with other families, Aunt Hilda became a nurse a little later and became the charge nurse. Grandma stayed there 3 years and worked another year and then attended Bethany College (about a mile away) where she would walk to school every day.  Helen and Ellen then moved to an apartment to attend Nurses trianing in Oklahoma city. After Nurses training grandmother worked in the nurses training and had to wear and white uniform which she wasn't found of, she enjoyed her gray uniform from school much more.  Anyway she wasn't fond of where she was living and didn't seem to enjoy the same social circles as Helen so her boyfriend Charly (1 of 19 boys she dated) helped her move to a different apartment. 

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