Remembering Rose...

Rose Yazembiak, circa 1942

"When she was 17, my mother left home and headed to Erie, the biggest

 city in the region. Erie was just 20 miles up the road from Edinboro (PA),

but  it was a whole new world for her.  She moved in with her married

 older sister Mary and began waitressing at a local restaurant.

"As custom required, she sent most of her earnings to her parents,

but for her, that was a small price to pay for being away from the

 drudgery and endless toil of the farm.  In truth, by then, she had

 developed such a distaste for farm life that as a young, eligible

 woman, she wouldn’t even date a farmer. 

She wasn’t taking any chances!"

Char LaCasse, from her remembrances of her mother, Rose, written for

Rose's memorial last spring.  Rose died on 1/6/2011 and would have turned

 88 today, 1/17/2012.