Inez

(1993?)

I am very restless so may as well talk about this place [the Schmidt Home]. Inez is very sick and may not live. She grew up on a lonely farm near Lone Rock and had to feed the pigs before walking 3 miles to school. She worked 30 years for the telephone company. Yesterday she was taken from the table to her room in a wheelchair. "Coffee killed the women," she would quote, "but it was whisky that killed the men." She was about 5 feet and worn-lookings. I don't think she had many things given to her.