Mrs Florida

 Mrs Florida 

My earliest and richest memories to this day reside in Sopchoppy, my first eight years in Florida. We spent many Sundays at Mrs Florida Morrison Roberts(1883-1976) home with her son Bonny Kaslo”BK”, (1907-1999)Florida Supreme Court Justice and his sister Inez Yent(1902-1993)wife of Florida Attorney General. I was most fortunate to have many matronly mothers in my early life. Mrs Florida’s , husband,Thomas(1877-1949) was the railroad clerk and merchant. They married in 1899. I would get out her button up shoes and try them on her, pretending I was a salesman. She had a feather down mattress on which I slept. Mamma and Paula and I would go to her house and stay during hurricanes, though her wooden cracker house was less sturdy than our concrete block house. She kept up writing to us up until her death.