Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library

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Q: k s this during the war?
A: Yes.
Q: Yes. mat was it--what ms wrong with her then she got sick?
A: kll she had that rheumtoid arthritis.
Q: Oh is that men she . . .
A: Yes, that's when she first started to getting it. And it was all
caused by . . .
Q: She had rheumtic fever?
A: No it was from--E think it wis frm wfking around in these places
where she mrked to get her training. She mrked for Stauffers in Chicago
for a long time. One smmer she tmrked for Stouffers up in Chicago in
their domtom restaurant in the dietary departmmt as a trainee and it
was in and out of the hot kitchen and into the cold refrigerators and out
to the kitchen and everything like that and w think she just--it ms
hard on her system that rapid changes of temperature up there so m h.
The doctor [thaught so] too.
Q: &re Mom and Mary pretty different?
A: No.
Q: el1 Mom seed like she's kind of mre of a tamboy than . . .
A: 1 . . s s She-+ell I don't know, they wren't too mch
different. Mary weis almys mre for &--going to school. kry took it
mre seriously than yaur mther did.
Q: Yes? (chuckles) Mom--I guess--she told m that she used to mstly
hang out with the boys.
A: Yes, all over the neighborhood. %re w s always one sitting on the
front porch or around the yard and Mary didn't ham--wll Mary, when they
ere around the house Mary was alwys around there too dxn they were
young. But when they got into school and everything Mary w s all school,
college, she m s all for her education. Your rmther ms kind of. . . .
mt for a good time too.
Q: (chuckles) F'un. . . . She told me she used to war overalls all the
tim and run around barefoot. I guess . . .
Q: . . . the doctor told her she had flat feet because she nwer wre
shoes or satething like that.
A: &, I don't remember that. She used to wear short shorts and they
all--well they all mre shorts. Your xmther and your granbther and
Mary all three mre shorts mst of the time around the house or anything.
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