This is my great grandmother Clara Adamson. She died in 1982 so I never had the chance to know her, but because of my mother I've come to love her. She practically raised my mom and some of her siblings as my grandma was a hairdresser so they spent a lot of time with Grandma Adamson…

This is my great-grandmother, Irene King Read. She was born on August 21, 1876. I never knew her, but she wrote a memoir about her life titled "Sense and Nonsense" 😁. I read it when I was a young girl and I've felt like I've "known" her ever since. At one point in her life her husband was a sheep farmer and they lived in a very small town Oreana, Idaho, 75 miles from civilization. Grandma Read was a vivacious woman with many talents-- she could sing, play the piano, and write…