Monday, April 12, 2010

My Mother

By Lorraine Lundgren Stevens (my dad's twin sister)
Written February 1983

Mother (Laura Polsfuss Lundgren) was born in New Germany, Minnesota, but her parents were born in Germany. Dad (Aron Edvard Lundgren) was born in Sweden and his parents before him so we are half German and half Swedish.

Mother was 39 and dad was 50 when I was born so I never considered them as 'young' parents and all us children did a great deal of work to help.

I felt sorry for mother always cooking and preparing food for the winter. Her life was hard!

She was so wonderful and kind and good - a Christian lady. I remember her most from when she lived with us. She wrote and asked us to come and get her, so we did. She had diabetes and her big toe would not heal. That was amputated, then half her foot, but she got along great until two years before she died. Her leg below the knee was amputated and she was in a wheelchair. Still got along good.

She told me those six years with us were the happiest of her life because she had no more worries then. I was 29 when she came to us and Diana 2, Jackie (Jack) 5. Steve was so wonderful to her also and we 'watched' her enjoy TV - soaps and barn dancing, etc. She and Diana played endless card games and Diana was so crazy about her.

All the family would come and see her at our house and help, especially Lefty, who built our breeze-way at cost and Loretta who would visit her at the University Hospital and look after our kids when we 'took off'. Lorita helped also and later, too, son Jack stayed there a few summers and worked (?) for Lefty.

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