Note: Frank worked from the time he was a small kid. He worked a full time job as a border in a hosiery mill after school, while he was in high school. A border then was the one that put socks on a form that was steam heated. This ironed the socks. Frank was the most normal of us 5 kids as far as being social. He last lived in Diamondhead MS. He retired there after working in the area. He found out on the Friday, before Hurricane Katrina hit on Monday, that he had 6 weeks to live. He and his wife would not evacuate the area. When the storm hit, the water rose and reached about 2 feet up on the roof. They managed to get out of the house through the garage. The water pressure against the doors and windows was so great they could not get them open. The garage door was ripped off about the same time they got into the garage. They swam out to a tall pine tree that had been toppled, but was still rooted. They rode this tree like a boat up and down for 5 hours. They were wedged in the branches and were there for 5 hours in the rain and wind. After the Strom passed and the water went down they made it to their attic. They spent the night there, and Ruth walked out the next day and got help. The went to Vicksburg, MS and stayed with friends. Frank died Oct. 13. Almost 6 weeks to the day. Frank being the oldest was in school first. All the teachers thought he was the best one. We always heard how we did not do as well as he did in school. As you can imagine this did not sit well with us. I was puny little thing and was not able mentally or physically to defend my self. When I was in high school the situation changed, and I did rebel against this treatment. I made a vow that my kids would never have to tolerate this kind of behavior in school. I had to back this up once. That was the only time I know that it happened to my kids. Frank was the only one of us five kids that went to a standard 4 years college and completed it. He always wanted to go to college, but there was never money for it. Frank applied for scholarships, but there never was one offered to him. I remember him and mom talking about him being denied one. The reason given was that he did not have an active social life. This fact has colored my life immensely. I could write volumes about this. I have looked back on this and thought how rich this type of thinking was. Here you have a kid going to high school, very good grades, in orchestra, and working 8 hours a day after school every day, and someone has the guts to say his social life is not active enough. I have never had positive feelings about anyone that puts a social life high on their list. I personally have not wanted to be associated with anyone or anything that put social activities as a qualifying thing. Frank went in the Marines and after he got out had a job at Western Electric. This was a manufacturing plant for AT&T. Later he went to college on the GI Bill. Dad thought he was getting above his raising by doing this. Frank had a good job and should be satisfied with that. This, I think, was one of those generational gap things. Our parents raised us to do better than they did. I mean this to be a generation wide statement. As we did better than them they would worry that maybe we would fail as we took our chances.
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