Autobiography of a West Texas Woman - Winnie Arthur Phillips
Winnie May Arthur Phillips is one of my paternal great-grandmothers. She was a tough, practical, and ambitious woman from West Texas, who never stopped working. I asked her once why she still used a wringer-washer on her back porch, instead of buying an electric washing machine. The year was about 1989. Her response was, "I'm not gonna pay some electrician a hundred bucks to put electricity out on my back porch! It's highway robbery!" She was over 90 years of age at the time, and had a frugally built a sizeable estate, but you'd never have known it from the careful way she spent her time and money.
She was a letter carrier, post office owner, real estate broker, cosmetics dealer, and owned and managed many properties in Southern California, where she moved with her husband and children in about 1923, or so.
In every letter I got from Winnie (as she insisted we call her), she included some sage piece of advice in the form of story with a moral. She just thought that way, and I treasure the letters I have saved since I was a young married woman.
She was a letter carrier, post office owner, real estate broker, cosmetics dealer, and owned and managed many properties in Southern California, where she moved with her husband and children in about 1923, or so.
In every letter I got from Winnie (as she insisted we call her), she included some sage piece of advice in the form of story with a moral. She just thought that way, and I treasure the letters I have saved since I was a young married woman.
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