Edith Fay Herndon was born on July 18, 1925. Her parents, Orville and Agnes McCauley, owned a five hundred acre farm in Nixa, Missouri, and Edith and her siblings, Alys Evelyn (‘Sis’ or ‘Dolly’), Gerald Dwight (‘Sonny’) and Jimmy Dale (‘Jim’), grew up milking cows and braving the wrath of over-protective roosters to collect the […]
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