Verbal Marie RICE was born 30 Jan 1908, in Johnston City, Williamson County, Illinois, to parents William Franklin and Emma Caroline (WESTON) RICE. Verbal was their seventh child.
In April, at the beginning of the Depression, Emma and her daughter, Verbal, went to Maywood, a suburb of Chicago, where both of them worked in a factory. They returned to the family home in September so Verbal could finish high school. (She, at least, completed 10th grade.)
Verbal
married Frank LUCAS 22 May 1926 in Marion,
Williamson County, Illinois. They had four children:
Patricia
(1927), Roger (1929), Terry (1932), and Janet (1939).
"My grandmother worked for a tuberculosis hospital, which was converted into the DuPage County Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. It was an old tuberculosis sanitarium. My two boys were born at the same hospital once it was a regular hospital. She was like an RN or something. She quit doing that, maybe the early 1960's." [*DWH]
"Gram was a tremendous cook. She would bake all the time. She made bread every morning. One of the grandkids would be sitting there watching. My grandfather would get homemade bread, eggs, and bacon every morning for breakfast. She always cooked her vegies in sugar and bacon grease." [*DWH]
"She would hum and sing to herself all these old corny countryish songs." [*DWH]
"She bossed around my grandfather like crazy. She wouldn't let him drink. That's why we used to take him out once a year, on Thanksgiving, so he could get a drink and play some pool. It would piss her off royal." [*DWH]
"She seemed to maintain the asparagus, strawberry, and rhubarb garden, but my grandfather did all the other gardening. I don't remember her canning any of the produce. She must have made her own pickles. I remember seeing jars of pickles in the basement. We used to pick on the way she said pickles. It would go down and then jump way up high." [DWH]
"Gram knitted all the time, constantly. She quilted in her later years." [*DWH]
"When they would babysit us, if it was on Friday night, we got stuck watching boxing. On Saturday night it was Perry Mason and Gunsmoke. That's all I've ever seen on their tv." [*DWH]
Verbal
M. Lucas died 16 May 1996 of terminal bronchiopneumonia as a consequence of
severe ischemic stroke, while living at Prairieview Lutheran Home in
Danforth, Iroquois County, Illinois.
[*DWH David Weston Hass]
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