Elsie Johnson Stories

My Parents Life As I Remember It

They were both brought up in Kansas. My mother was 33 when they were married December 21, 1920. She . . .

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My Father

Lewis George Honomichl My father was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family had come from Czechoslovakia. . . .

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Music - Music - Music

Music has always been a big part of my life - from learning nursery rhymes through the wonderful yea . . .

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Memories of After the War

The war was over. My husband Harry had started Dental School pre-war and was anxious to finish. The . . .

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Memorial Day Memories

We always called it “Decoration Day” School was dismissed for the year and we looked forward to . . .

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Medicine Changes

What a difference in medicine and procedures – treatments since I graduated from nursing school in . . .

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May Day in Iowa, 1930’s

May Day in Iowa was important and fun. Several days before May First, my sisters and I would be busy . . .

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Male & Female

Recently, “60 Minutes” did a program on the discovery that male and female cells react to drugs . . .

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Did You Ever Have To Wear Long Underwear And High Topped Shoes?

Cold Iowa winters made these necessary clothing for me. It was awful for a 4th-5th grade girl to go . . .

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Blueberry Hill – My First Love

“I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill On Blueberry Hill when I found you.” I met Bill the summe . . .

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Things Are Not Like They Used To Be!

Margarine in plastic container with a yellow pill which when worked, made it look like Butter. Nylon . . .

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The Porch Swing

The Porch Swing Everyone who lived on West Willis in Perry, Iowa, had a large front porch. If you . . .

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