Fat n SASSY!

Mom was a sassy kid by age four years -- or so she has admitted to her friends.  By age seven,  grandparents, aunt and uncles living in Chicago had grown tired of her.  They tried to send her back to New Mexico where social services would make her father pay to have other relatives raise her.  Her father flatly refused, telling social service workers that he could and would raise his daughter himself "thank you!"  Mom's Uncle David yelled at Mom, "You're just like your father!"

That was before IT, before electronic transfer systems allowed the government to garnish a person's wages automatically before the money could reach a parent's bank account -- condemning a whole family to live in perpetual poverty like the State of Colorado did to Mom and her children in 1998.   Back in 1949 Chicago, family's simply sent the children into the streets around Cicero to fend for themselves.

Mom was a sickly, skinny, little kid that survived by learning to keep her mouth shut and disappear into the woodwork.  Only after she married did she get fat. On the ninth day of March, she married Terry John Senty, the only son of Sparky and Red who had both attended North Central College in Napaerville.