•April 28, 2021•
Submitted by Lozelle Bunfill

As we are approaching ‘Mother’s Day’ in 2021, my thoughts have often turned to my own mother and her awesome responsibilities and how she handled them. She was born in Versailles , Illinois just east of where the Baptist Church now stands. She was the third of ten children born to Milton and Elizabeth,[Lizzie] Herren. One of her younger brothers died at the age of seven from what was then called ‘Pernicious Anemia’. Her youngest brother lost his life on Leyte Island in the Philippines during the retaking of those islands from the Japanese during WWII.
Mother was born in 1905 and died in 1986 so she lived through two world wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. She saw her oldest son leave to join the conflict in WWII, and as it was for many other mothers, it was very difficult for her
When she was a teenager attending the Cooperstown Christian Church and singing in the choir, my dad visited a service, and upon seeing her, he said “There’s the girl I am going to marry”. At least that is the story I have been told. They were married in 1925 and started a life together that lasted 61 years until her death in 1986.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.