Editor’s Note: This article first ran in The Ennis Daily News, June 25, 2008.
Ennis, Texas - Spring 1944 - My pretty blue Easter dress made by my mother was hanging in the closet. The stuffed Easter rabbit that was a gift from my brother, Joe Riley Crow, was next to me as I slept. The youngest of eight children, I was sleeping in the front downstairs bedroom with my parents, Lee and Margaret Crow.
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