مؤلف: Janet Hamilton

Janet Hamilton Griffith July 30, 1937–May 10, 2015 On June 2, 2002, Janet suffered a stroke from which she fully recovered, according to her doctor, on March 21, 2005. On March 31, 2005, she suffered another stroke that left her very healthy but unable to go home. Janet had an appointment with a publisher to work out the details of having this book published in April 2005. Because of her last stroke, the book was not published since it was not possible to communicate with her. Janet spent her formative years in the hill country of Kentucky before her family’s need for work brought them to West Virginia’s coalfields in the 1940s. She had a constant high level of energy; she was a beautiful and highly intelligent lady. She lived a life as a military wife of her high school sweetheart. She began a very successful business career following her husband’s retirement. She spent over a decade in upper management for the Avon Company before becoming a small-business owner. She was very proud of her children’s clothing boutique, Patches N Lace. In her next venture, Janet grew to become a well-respected and very successful real estate agent in Virginia. All during this time, her grandmother’s proud but hard scrabble life became the nagging story she just had to tell. Unfortunately, her life ended before she was able to see its formal publication, but she had completed her story, and now her husband of sixty-one years, in her loving memory, places it in your hands. Readers will enjoy this visit to the backwoods of Kentucky during the 1930s, with its colorful description of the landscapes, lives, and loves of one family as they struggled to find their identity and future in a world torn apart by poverty and war, written for you in her own words. Janet passed very peacefully and quickly with all her family by her side on Mother’s Day, May 10, 2015.