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| Rhoda Lou Watson (Simmons) |
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I was born on February 23, l926, the first of four children to Dorothy Rhode Simmons and Ralph A. Simmons at Home Hospital in Lafayette, Indiana.
By the time I was two, I had a baby sister, Carol Joanne, and eighteen months later, I had a baby brother, John Eugene.
It was a busy time for our young family, but we were well-fed and snug and warm in the bosom of loving parents.
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| Rhoda with Her Parents and Sister Joanne | |
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Outside our family group, the depression was bearing down on the world.
I am sure that Dorothy and Ralph were worried at times about the future of our country, and
about what lay ahead for all of us, but within our tight little family group, things were
always organized, comfortable, dependable and secure.
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