Stories from Elsie Johnson

It was a “Whippet” Willys-Knight – what a funny name for a car I learned to drive on! My mother wouldn’t learn t...

When I was about 7 years of age a huge dog jumped on me and knocked me down - no one was near to help me. I’ll never f...

Difficulty I think my father thought he was taking me on an educational trip. It was to a packing house. It was a terr...

We used to date some but most of all we had a group. I guess you’d call it a ‘gang’ now. It was a mixture of boys ...

When I was in high school in Perry Iowa, we were never allowed to wear pants!!! I did walk a mile to school so in the wi...

It was early Christmas morning. We could hear giggling and knew the girls were waiting at the top of the stairs for ever...

My Children’s Days Everyone had to be up and wait on the staircase before we could see what Santa left! Xmas Tree sin...

I remember my sister came down with Scarlett Fever. The first thing that went up on our house was a huge yellow sign war...

School Activities - Girl Reserve Club - an athletic cub with after school games. Cheerleader - would practice after scho...