My mother

Katherine, John L, Mary Leonore, Goerge Homer, La

brue 1919

 My mother was the baby of the family. Pictured here at one and a half with two of her older brothers and one of her sisters. (missing are Olivia and Arthur) The family lived in Kansas. My mother was the only one of the children to be born there.

In a age when other little girls were having their hair bobbed, her father was from the "old country" and didn't want to have her hair cut. It was deep auburn and hung in big, soft, ringlets.

Her mother dressed her in only white until she started school, at the age of six.

 After she was in school, she finally got her bob and was so happy. She was nicknamed "Kitty" by her father, and called that all her life.

Kitty 1927

Katherine Korreine LaBrue 1917 - 1993

Ma mère

Kathering Korene La Brue
2½ yrs.  1919

I've always loved this picture of my mother when she was only 2½ years old. When I was that age I hardly had any hair at all. She had those beautiful, long, chestnut curls! Life's just not always fair. Her father was in his 60's when she was born and when all the other girls were having their hair bobbed, he wanted her to keep her long curls. Finally, when she started Jr. High, in 1929, he let her get it cut.

1929

This is her mother.

Katherine Willamina DeWalt LaBrue, age 13 - 1888

Happy Mother's Day