Betty Bull Clarke: My Great Grandmother

Doris is my great-great aunt born on November 25, 1917, in Salina, Kansas. Nowadays if someone is born anywhere other than a hospital it is weird, but then it was not. Doris was born in her house. She lived in a 2-story house with a “big room”, also known as a living room, on the main floor and one bedroom upstairs. Doris’s family consisted of 5 people altogether: Mom, Hilma; Dad, Carl; 2 brothers (LeRoy, they also called him Sandy, and Lauren), and Doris. Doris was the youngest by eleven years. She lived in Salina during the Dust Bowl, she was 12 years old when the first storm hit.

Betty Marie Tallcheif was born in 1925. As a child,she would always listen to her grandmother tales about being a Osage and her heritage.She suddenly found herself as a regular Indian girl shy, calm,introverted, and obiendent. Betty Marie started ballet lessons at the age of four years old. She suddenly found out that ballet was her thing.

Did you know there was a young woman that was a nurse in the battlefield? Her name was Clara Barton.she was born December 25 1821 and died on April 12 1821.Sins a child Clara devoted her life for others and always was nice.And when Clara was done teaching some men would ask her if she wanted to marry them but Clara said no to all of them because she was independent.

Over 150 years ago a woman named Clara Barton repeatedly defied the odds stacked against females, reinventing herself time and time again. After a career as an educator and clerk in the US Patent Office Clara Barton began her work with the Ladies’ Aid Society delivering supplies to soldiers fighting in the Civil War. Her compassion and devotion to humankind soon transformed this supply service into a career as a Civil War Nurse. She solicited donations and used her own money to purchase supplies needed to care for the wounded. She routinely placed herself in harm’s way to deliver supplies and render aid to those in need regardless of where their loyalties lay. She took the initiative to record the names of men who and died and where they were buried, she documented the conditions of the hospitals where the wounded were being treated. She worked to educate former slaves and prepare them for their new life of freedom. After the war she helped locate missing soldiers, providing comfort to grieving families. In time she founded the American Red Cross.

Barton was an unbelievable women who made a great impact in society. From building a school with six kids to creating an International Red Cross with more than 6 million people. After achieving great goals, Clara retired when she was in her 80’s. She died in Washington, D.C. in an old house. The building had been used for keeping Red Cross equipment and then as her office. It was made with material saved from aid centers built after the flood in Johnstown. In that house on the Potomac River, Barton lived her remaining days. Unfortunately she died after a life of service to others in April, 1912, at age

Betty Washington deserves the award because she extends the criteria, and is the best candidate.

Clara worked hard to become the pioneering nurse. She knew she wanted to take care of people when she had taken care of her brother for three years. Her brother David fell off of a barn roof and wasn’t expected to live. Clara stayed by his side and took good care of him. When she heard that Southern sympathizers attacked soldiers from Massachusetts Regiment she decided to tend to the wounded.

While searching “The Profit of the Great Smoky Mountains” one character that stands out as being a unique American is Granny or Mis’ Cayce. Mis’ Cayce is an elderly woman whose birth was probably in the early 1800’s in the Appalachian community she still lived in. She grew up, grew old and will die in the region, probably without ever leaving it. In her first introduction she wore a “cap, which had a flapping frill and was surmounted by a pair of gleaming spectacles. A bandana kerchief was crossed over her breast, and she wore a blue-and- white-checked homespun dress of the same pattern and style that she had worn here fifty years ago” (Murfree).

In the story The Osage Firebird, Betty Marie wants to be a ballerina. The structure of the text is based on the ideas that were in this passage. The passage describes the girl that wants to be a ballerina but has some challenges to face before she is a professional ballerina. Some of this story deals with the background of the girl. She is a Native American and because she is a Native American, people treat her differently because she comes from a different culture than others. They even pick on her because of her last name. This passage as a whole is developed in a sense that you have to work your way up for what you want to accomplish. Now the story of Betty Marie.

To what extent are friends willing to forgive each other? Betty Gore and Candace Montgomery are two good friends who attend the same church. When Betty Gore found out about Candace's Affair with her husband, Betty enters a state of rage and tries to hurt candace only to end up in a pool of blood. The Wylie murder took place in a small town where Candace Montgomery is accused of murdering Betty gore with an ax.

Born to a family of 8 siblings on June 20, 1953 in Del Rio Texas, my grandmother’s story had started.Back in the year of 1955  her mother had been working as a maid at the hotel called Francisco Grande Hotel (training hotel for the San Francisco Giants),making 80 cents an hour, while her father had been working with Cesar Chavez’s farm labor organization. They moved to Stanfield, Arizona during 1955, because her father had to work for the ranchers in the tractor fields. For  chores on  Saturday’s everyone in the family had to pick a room and clean that room, my grandmother’s prefered room to clean was the living room. On her spare time she liked to hang out with her friends such as going to see a movie or going to the mall.

Betty G. Miller had always lived within other people’s worlds. Born deaf, her life was located within large communities of people who could hear. In a world of muffled, indistinct sound, Miller forcibly learned to become something she would never be. Yet even as the society left her spirit wounded, visual art gave her wings to soar.

Much like Helene Tucker, she is caring and compassionate Her life is an example of perseverance and strength. Her life is an inspiring one, she has always exuberated encouraging energy towards others. She supported me in all aspects of my life and believes in my abilities to accomplish my goals. All endeavors throughout my grandmother’s life have been symbolic of her success. Her hard work and perseverance represent true success to me.

My grandmother, 62 today, has lived an eventful life very unknown to her 22 grandchildren. Most of us know she was married to our grandfather, Ray Pittsley, at the young age of 16, however, before and after that is mysterious. They settled in Dubois, Wyoming and raised a family of three girls and two boys. During their children’s teens and twenties, my grandparents worked for the Louisiana Pacific Sawmill in Dubois, Wyoming. This company logged in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana and created the job industry in these places. At the sawmill, my grandmother worked the post peeler. “I would generally work eight hours a day. It wasn’t hard hard work, but it was work.” Cindy would go to work no matter the weather and no one would ever hear a grumble. While

Faulkner’s character of Granny shows the intelligence of women, especially when protecting one’s family. Even though it would be considered immoral, Granny used stolen papers “stamped with the official letterhead” and the signature of Colonel Dick that “Ringo had learned to copy” to forge letters so that they could make a profit from receiving orders of mules and selling them back. Although this act was immoral, Granny was doing it so that she could protect her family since they would have money to live from. Granny was shown as attentive to details by being “careful about what general's name was on the letter” and taking note of the recipient of each order. Faulkner portrays a different side of Southern women through Granny.