Nana Biography

The convent was very strict, I was one of five non-Catholics, but I didn’t want to be different, so I went to mass every morning. I think I told you this, and I cooperated at the convent totally. I learned how – I had nice penmanship and I think I might’ve become a Catholic if they kept The there who knows? It was – it hurt me and it was a marvelous education. I still think kids respond to authority, somewhat. I think that when you give them too much freedom perhaps it’s would’ve been too bad in my case.

Did you like going there, do you remember about that?

It was scary, I was sort of scared. But they were all nice – the nuns were so sweet, and everybody was so nice and all the girls were nice and they sort of made you feel at home and so, no, and I’m grateful that I went away and boarding school, because when I married and came out to California, I was ready to be separated from my family. It was no great sorrow. A lot of girls I think when they went away for the first time, maybe it’s tough on them, but I was – my mother was, I was an independent child, I think that’s true. I was able to be independent. And I’m grateful for that. And I felt that our boys should do the same thing. Not so totally, I mean the home is there and they love you, but you’ve got to stand on your own feet, sometime. But you know I’ve never had any real adversity in my life, maybe the divorce was pretty bad, but I never had any real terrible sorrow in my life like so many people do.the passing of my mother was sad, but she lived her life and it was time and that kind of grief. I don’t think it’s something that you can’t bear.

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