#52 Ancestors - Week 15 - FEMALES

FEMALES

This was the prompt from a year ago and since I'm more than a year behind in these posts, I thought this would fit well with that one.

 A few years after moving to Vernal in 2000, I was invited to join a group of women that got together every Wednesday for quilting, handwork and lunch.  It included Janet (Jeannie) Suddreth (Scott's aunt), Ramona Stevens, Eva Joy, her daughter Carolyn, Carol Rasmussen and Judy Mathisen (Scott's cousins), Monica Jessen, Carolene Gardiner (a friend of Ramona's and Jeannie's).  Kamie and Trisha (Scott's cousin's girls), sometimes Tammy (Jeannie's daughter) would come over also and sometimes others from the area including Julie Jessen and Veloy Farnsworth would stop by.  It was such a fun day.  Everyone would work on handwork or a quilt if someone had one to work on.  We often met at Ramona's because she had a large open space where we could all gather and work.     

The Lindsay reunion in Altamont each August included a quilt that would be raffled.  I offered to do one in 2015 and these ladies helped me quilt it.  I wish I had kept track of other quilts that they helped me with.  

After Ramona passed away we began meeting at Jeannie's.  These ladies were always so kind to prepare a good old fashioned meal.  They were wonderful cooks and bakers.  

Here are a few pictures that Carol so graciously shared with me because I couldn't find some that I know that I took.  

Eva Joy, Ramona and Jeannie

Jeannie and Monica

Carolene

Jeannie

Carol, Carolene, Trisha, Bobbi, Jeannie on a day when my DIL and GD visited!

Business quilt

There was one day when Carolene was binding a few winter quilts during cousins' day.  Ramona asked her what she was going to do with all of them and Carolene responded it was none of her business and we all laughed.  A few weeks later at Christmas time, Carolene gifted each one of us one of the  beautiful quilts (mine is pictured above, business quilt).  They became known as the "business quilts" because indeed it was none of our business.

Another day Carol's daughter Megan and her son Jax were visiting with us.  Ramona got up to go to the bathroom and tooted all the way there.  As Carol puts it, "The look on Jax's face was priceless."  

One more story - Eva Joy kissed Kamie (two generations younger) on the mouth when Kamie went to leave.  Kamie had the funniest look on her face.  She didn't realized that that was a common thing with the older cousins.  

We miss those ladies who have left us, and we miss getting together each week.  Nothing more special than the time spent with these dear friends.