wouldn't starve.)  Our family was still growing.  Rosie was born in 1930, Walter in 1932 and Herb was our last child born in 1936.  Also, that year we lost our second oldest daughter, Alma, she died of pneumonia.  She just was confirmed that spring.  She would have been 16 in September.  After 1936, things were starting to get better,  the government was starting up projects that men went ot work for;  the W.P.A., G.C.C. and P.W.A.  They built dams, parks, buildings and helped improve roads.  Then the war started, causing a man shortage and the government wanted more food and fiber.  Everybody had to pitch in and help especially the girls.  Boys and girls had to do men's work.  Our girls were hauling grain to town.  I was afraid they would crash.  We had to hire Indians to help do the threshing and all the food that had to be made to feed them.  I practically baked night and day just preparing food for the threshing crew.   It was so nice  to get running water in the house, It made the house work so much easier.  Some of the girls had left home, working in factories in other states. finding different boyfriends and getting married.  Frieda was first, she got married in 1940.  They joined the Women Army Corps.  Herb was the last to graduate from high school., Walter went to Wahpeton School of Science and took up aeronautical work and flew his own plane and did a lot of spraying for people.  In 1963 he died in a plane crash in Wyoming.  He had two very young children.  We built a house in Linton and finished it sometime in 1961.  That year we had another very dry year.  The boys were irrigating to get feed for the cattle.  In 1962, we found out that the government was going to take our bottom land for the big Oahe Dam, our land got flooded in 1967.  In 1969 Godfrey and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary.  all our children and grandchildren were back for that event.  Later, we moved to town after Herb finally got married.  Dad always drove out to the farm everyday if weather permitted.  I enjoyed living in town especially when I lost my husband in 1979 and my oldest daughter, Frieda was killed in a farm accident in 1980.  I especially enjoyed making quilts with the the ladies at Peace Lutheran Church.  I am now living in Santa Rosa, CA. The weather is nice and I can get out and walk every day.  I celebrated my 91st birthday in February of 19089.