Grandma Amy's First Job

As a stay at home mom now, I've begun to wonder what other mothers do all day. My mother was a stay at home mom until all us kids were in school. She did daycare for a while when we were younger. My grandmothers were also stay at home moms until their kids were grown and in school as well. But what about my great-grandmothers? Often we hear about these women making bread, cleaning, doing laundry by hand, ext. but did they do anything else?

My great-grandmother Amy spend a lot of her time volunteering, though she didn't even consider it that. She did only what was natural to her; she helped whenever it was needed. The only job she had was after Grandpa Peter died, when she was 58, to young for social security and Grandpa Peter's railroad pension stopped after he died. She had no choice. It was probably the best thing that could happen. She lived way out in the country but the neighbor lady who was alone too and worked in Lake Mills at a little factory that manufactured an orange juice in containers used by the airlines. They would drive to work together. Grandma Amy worked there until she moved to town. I think Grandma Amy really enjoyed it actually, she told many storied about he young girls she worked with. When she moved to town she worked as san aide at the retirement home in Northwood. The job ended very suddenly, something happened. My grandma Bonny never knew what happened but her sister Rosemary seemed to.