Autos by Women
Helene Rother Ackerknecht, born in 1908 in Leipzig, Germany, was the first woman to design cars for GM.She worked on all the 1940s cars.
For today (Wednesday):
I enjoyed ‘some’
history in my short time in school. Since then I have also heard and read names
of people who made a historical difference. Jane Austen was a writer that did
some stirring of her own. Maya Angelou was also a poet and entertainer who
walked on the edge. I have never known anyone who effected change in history
enough to get their names in history books.
But in my short history I
have known many women who could have given advice to Presidents, kings and
Queens. You have got to know the women
behind men in uniform to know what they have overcome. Ora, who once blogged
but now is alive on Facebook can hold you spell bound with her life, following
her husband who was a Chaplain in the Army. We drove to Kentucky to talk her
about the Cochlear implants I was considering. She is a wonderful, articulate
and open lady. She gave me some pointers and a lot of good advice. She is also
very cool, that lady. LOL
I had a sister in law
named Ruth. Since my brothers were old enough to serve in WWII and I was still
a baby, their wives were old enough to be my mother. Ruth was a down to earth
MOTHER. I looked forward to staying with Ruth in the summer. They lived out in
the woods. Her son Howard was near my age.
I related this in the book,
“Jack and Sherry’ A love story”. When I was about 6 yrs old I had a runny nose
and spied a box that I was sure was Kleenex. But the things were stuck together
and I could not pull it apart. Ruth spied me sitting on the floor beside the
box pulling at this thing. She asked what I was doing. I explained I needed to
blow my nose. She was so sweet, “Honey use my hanky,” And she took the Kotex from
me. Well you must admit the boxes look a
lot alike to a 6 year old.
Later in life at the Dr’s
office he discovered she was on the verge of a heart attack. He started to call
an ambulance and she flat refused. My friend will drive me there. Finally he
agreed. In the car she told her friend to go thru Hardees drive thru, ”they won’t
feed my anything at the hospital!” That is the Ruth-Truth, and she arrived at
the hospital in time to be treated for a ‘for-real heart attack!’ That was her.
Nite
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