Garda Esplin is my Mother. Here she is in 1940, a Junior at Valley High School in Orderville, Utah. This is the entire Junior Class: all 21 of them!She was an orphan. Her father died when she was 21 months old. Her mother died when she was 10. They were raised by an uncle, but really they raised themselves. She had three sisters and one brother.
She served on the FIRST yearbook staff for the school annual, the Valonian. She was organized and a good typist.
As you will later learn, her Senior year she was focused on something else. Quoting from the Disney movie Little Mermaid, "She's got it bad." Stay tuned for more about the romance in another post.
Garda died in 2002 at the age of 79.
2 comments:
Thank you for all of the history and insight into Granny. It's great to see her in her youth and to hear stories about her habits.
I'm so happy to see these old pictures. Oh How I miss Granny every day!
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