My Nan Nan
When most people reminisce about my grandmother, they begin with a comment about how she was not a very good housekeeper. We called her Nan Nan and she endured 13 pregnancies to raise 7 children during the depression. Five boys, two girls, Several miscarriages, a stillborn or two and at least one horrible accident. There aren’t good records and in those days you just keep carrying on. All but 2 of her children were delivered at home. When her youngest was just 4, I came along to make her a grandparent. By the time her youngest was 10, there were 8 grandkids and we all gathered at Nan Nan and Pop Pop’s every weekend. Cecelia Marie Schuh was born in 1917 and dreamed of becoming a nurse. Her father said absolutely not as nursing was not regarded as an honorable profession at that time and so she dropped out of school and married Earl Shelsby at age 16. She would have been an incredible nurse. Between kids, grandkids and everyone’s friends, there usually we
