Aunt Viola
We loved Aunt Viola's vibrator weight loss machine. We'd lay on it and it would do all the work. She played the piano a lot, especially in her older years when she couldn't see very well. Aunt Viola always taught Sunday School and Child Evangelism. She and Aunt Elizabeth (Grandpa's sister) taught a weekly club of 20-30 kids in Aunt Elizabeth's basement. She owned and used beautiful flannelgraph which the kids loved. They always served a snack. Aunt Viola worked at Missionside, a Mennonite mission for the poor near the packing plant. Tending a beautiful flower garden (behind the garage of the apartment house), Aunt Viola always grew flowers and took them to the church, every single Sunday. She loved her nieces and nephews.
(recollections by niece Dianna)
We loved Aunt Viola's vibrator weight loss machine. We'd lay on it and it would do all the work. She played the piano a lot, especially in her older years when she couldn't see very well. Aunt Viola always taught Sunday School and Child Evangelism. She and Aunt Elizabeth (Grandpa's sister) taught a weekly club of 20-30 kids in Aunt Elizabeth's basement. She owned and used beautiful flannelgraph which the kids loved. They always served a snack. Aunt Viola worked at Missionside, a Mennonite mission for the poor near the packing plant. Tending a beautiful flower garden (behind the garage of the apartment house), Aunt Viola always grew flowers and took them to the church, every single Sunday. She loved her nieces and nephews.
(recollections by niece Dianna)
Aunt Viola
Viola and Toby
