Refections in Time--Momma's Apron
When Hilda Lorraine Dees McCafferty presented me with the photograph of Blanche Moore with the children of the Moore Community I was taken back with a longing, a wistfulness, and nostalgia for a time I hadn't even experienced. My eyes were not just riveted on the sheer happiness radiating from the face of my mother at approximately four years of age, but of the other children in the company of Blanche. And in Blanche, herself. It is easy to see the love there, each for the other, and that Blanche's care of the children that day was a labor of love. Happy Times in Old Jibby. Photo circa 1924 in the Moore Community of Wayne, County, Missouri near Rucker/Ojibway. My uncle Clarence Madison (Bud) Wilson believes this photo was taken at the homestead of Daniel and Susan Moore, my Great-Grandparents. The young lady in the photograph, center, is the author of "Momma's Apron", Blanche Moore. The children are, Back row, L-R: Wilbur Eugene Dees (1919-1945) and