Florence Ridenour (Harris)

Ernest and Florence worked in the Ridenour family store, which was lost in a flood in 1932.

She would never talk about family.

She played the piano in Sunday school. She wore white gloves to church. She made Donna take communion and Donna never knew why. She didn't miss a single Sunday School for years; she received a special pin, and every year she did not miss a single Sunday School she got another emblem.

You wouldn't find Florence in church without a hat on.

She strongly encouraged William Brogan to start going to church if he wanted to date her daughter, Erma Jean. That was one of the main reasons William Brogan started going to church and he eventually married Erma Jean. Florence really liked William and didn't want her daughter to marry anyone else.

She was a very intelligent woman. She would always correct her grand-daughter Donna's grammar.

She drove and her boys built her a T-Model Ford. She drove up into her later years. In the final years of her life, her daughter Wanda, who lived next door, would have to drive her.

She was a very good cook. She had to take in boarders (mostly miners) once Ernest was killed; they had to add to the house to help accommodate the boarders. They often had a full house. The miners would work in three shifts, so Florence and family would often have to accommodate for another miner as one was leaving.

Erma Jean had to stay home a lot and help do the housework and cooking and stuff. Florence had boarders almost up until the time she died (they may still have been living there until she died).

Florence and "Aunt Lizzie" like to play the card game Rook.