Mom was surrounded by family growing up, immediate and extended. She and her distant cousin, Annie Jo Wesley, were good friends and when they were 14 or 15 they took the bus to Op (or Enterprise) to visit family. They thought they were very grown up as they were wearing stockings for the first time. On their way home, they had a layover in Montgomery and decided to walk to the capital. However, it was raining and the rain and mud were making their stockings dirty so they decided to stay at the station. Mom says it was hard to keep them up, walking so much. They were rayon, not nylon.
Mom and Annie Jo used to sing together. At the store, there was a swing in the front and they would sit and sing. Mr. Ben Sawyer who delivered the gas, liked to hear them sing. One delivery he said, " I'm gonna get a Coke, y'all sing - I'm tired!" This was before the store burned on June 26, 1944 on Archie's birthday.
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