Jesse McClellan GEORGE

                      Family records indicate Irene, my mother, was born in Independence, Ai, I had always figured that she would have been born in Brandon as a trip of 20 miles of so was a long way in her day and Ill have to check it out.
She went through the 10th grade as that is as far as public school went in the early 1900s. She went to Cedar Rapids for a time when Dad worked at the old Rock Island freight depot and Kings Crow n Plaster Co. They moved to Vinton and run a truck garden for a time then to Waterloo when dad worked for the Morris Motor Co. They then moved to Brandon in about 1931 when Dad bought the general store from my Grandfather Wilson and his children. When they sold the store in 1951, Irene, my mother moved to Iowa City first (until dad finished up in Brandon) where she worked at S.S. Kresge Co. for nearly 20 years.
Dad joined her in a few months after he had completed the sale of the store in Brandon. They lived in an apartment near downtown on Dubuque St. and afters Dads death in 1960 she brought a home at 1218 East College St. where she lived until her death in 1973. She had suffered from heart disease since in the early 50s and that was the ultimate cause of her death.
My mother was a hard working, dedicated person that really held our family together. Dad was a hard working person also but never seemed to show much affection to either my brother or me, In all fairness he grew up in difficult times and did his best to put food on the table even during depression times when the store was our main source of income.