Adrienne,

Your memories, and mine, of one of the dearest human beings we've known,

Sara Elizabeth Turner, are very vivid, are they not?  I thought you would

appreciate the" Flour Sack Poem"!

You know...your mentioning Grandmother's many talents and just some of

the things you remembered her doing brought to my mind something that I hadn't

thought of for a while: After my mother died in 1933 and up until I was about

15 years old I spent a good portion, if not the entire summer, on the farm

in Portales with Grandmother.  I must have been about 11 years old when she designed

an outdoor shower bath, and then encouraged me to build it while she

supervised the construction. It, like so many of her "inventions", functioned

perfectly and everyone who used it said so.

I had long forgotten the old shower, but a few years ago I visited an old

"buddy" of mine at his home in  Denver, and during the several days we were

together we reminisced.... thinking  back about a lot of our experiences in combat

in 1945. He reminded me of the outdoor shower I built while we were

stationed in a tiny village in northern  France...said he didn't think any one in the

Squadron would ever forget it.  When Grandmother showed a little boy what

could be done, if he only  put his mind to it...that he and everybody in the

family could enjoy taking a  good bath, even when there was no such thing like

indoor plumbing  anywhere  around, I am sure that she had no idea of how many

people would benefit from her  "invention"!

You mentioned the quilts you gave Gloria to give to Ann and Estelle:  We remember

them very much...as a matter of fact, when Gloria read the Flour Sack

Poem she mentioned them and said at the time that she "bet Grandmother

Goodwin used patches of clothe from old flour sacks when she made them".

How blessed you and I are, Adrienne, to have been a part of this remarkable, unselfish

and caring person's family.

Thanks for writing and for all your kind thoughts,

Ralph