Elzie!

Mom was the typical housewife.  She learned to sew and would make us cute dresses from feed sacks.  She learned to cook from watching a TV show. 

She became a very good cook.  She worked hard to keep a clean house and provide good meals.  

She was a good swimmer and had very graceful hands.  it's hard to say much about mom because she was dad's partner.  He was the driving force and she was his mate.  She loved flowers and dad tried to help her flower beds one time by bringing home raw sewage, thinking it would enrich the soil.  He cleaned out septic tanks.  He poured it all over her flower beds and of course, it killed all the flowers.

If she got mad at dad she wouldn't yell, she would just say "ELZIE.!"