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    No Time for Poverty
    No Time for Poverty
    No Time for Poverty
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    No Time for Poverty

    By JoAnn Lambert

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    NO TIME FOR POVERTY was written by Lila Wesley and JoAnn Lambert about her familys life. Lila was raised three miles from Vincennes, Indiana. Their life story will inspire you to trust God for your everyday needs. This book relates the familys hard times during the Depression. With Lilas mothers faith and love, the family survived.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInspiring Voices
    Release dateJun 21, 2013
    ISBN9781462406524
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      No Time for Poverty - JoAnn Lambert

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      Lila Wesley

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      Copyright © 2013 JoAnn Lambert.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0651-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0652-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013909478

      Printed in the United States of America.

      Inspiring Voices rev. date: 06/13/2013

      Contents

      Mom Told Me So…

      Chapter 1 Missouri

      Chapter 2 The Move To Indiana

      Chapter 3 Wabash River Flood

      Chapter 4 An Angel Visits

      Chapter 5 Our Fathers Death

      Chapter 6 Mean People

      Chapter 7 My Childhood

      Chapter 8 Move To Vincennes

      Chapter 9 Respect Elders

      Chapter 10 Instructions

      Chapter 11 Animals To Love

      Chapter 12 Take Time To Listen

      Chapter 13 Family

      Chapter 14 We Got Richer Every Day

      Chapter 15 Family Additions

      Chapter 16 After Thoughts

      Epiloque

      Letter to my Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren

      Mom Told Me So…

      Mom started this book by writing a letter to her grandchildren. In this letter she tells them about growing up during the depression. Her main purpose was to encourage them to have faith during hard times. She would write until her hand cramped, then we would finish by her dictating to me She wrote things down as she remembered them. I then arranged them into chapters. The chapters contain subject matter rather than a time frame.

      I treasure the memory of the two of us working together to express the blessings the Lord had bestowed on us. We laughed sometimes, cried sometimes, as we reminisced. We lived together a total of 54 years, but I never felt close to her until we wrote this book.

      Eighteen months later we sent it to a publisher. Mom was excited about seeing our work in a book form. However, she died on January 26, 2013 without seeing her wish come true.

      Here it is Mom your life story in print.

      JoAnn

      Chapter 1

      Missouri

      As I sit here in my breakfast room, on this cold dreary day January 17, 2011. I am thinking about some of the questions my grand-kids and great grand-kids asked me at our Christmas get together. I am writing this down to tell them about growing up in a small Indiana town during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The tree is down and all the decorations put away for another year. I have plenty of time to write and reminisce.

      Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day. Now a national holiday, it is also my 95th birthday. Almost everything is closed. No mail or banking. I feel honored. The bird feeders outside the window are really crowded with cardinals, blue jays and one redheaded woodpecker. Doves and squirrels come to visit also. We need to thank God for them. They are parts of our lives given to us for enjoyment.

      Now, back to my life story, I was born in Gideon, Missouri Jan 17, 1916 to Isaac and Caroline [Jaynes] Deckard. My dad answered to the name of Ike and mother was Carrie. I was named after my grandma Deckard, Delila Jayne. I answer to Lila. When I was born mother was ill with yellow jaundice. I weighed three pounds and two ounces. She couldn’t breast feed me, however, she told me about an angel God sent to us. An old man named Scottie Lewis lived behind us and he had a goat. He milked that goat every two hours and fed me. He carried me on a pillow, even changed my diapers. He had to be an angel. Now you know why I am so stubborn, it was the goat milk. Scottie died when I was about two years old. Mother told me that I would watch for him and cry. To this day I can see him taking care of children in Heaven.

      I remember little about living in Missouri. When I was three years old, dad and mother went to the grocery store leaving Edith

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