So very interesting, Steve. It is no surprise to me that Oki is smart! She
married you, right?!Her school experience reminds me of my mom's, who grew up
on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin, the youngest of 7 kids. The local school,
in Boaz, ended with sophomore year. Her oldest brother had gone to Richland
Center to finish high school, and convinced their parents that she should too.
So it was arranged that she would live with an older couple there and work for
her room and board. She was 14. Her mother drove her there in a horse and
buggy, as they didn't have a car. This was in 1927.
