In Loving Memory

Sheena Young Springer

28 January 1929 - 14 September 2005

     Sheena Young was born in Montrose, Scotland.  She was the youngest of ten Young children.  Her stories about growing up during World War II as a teenager made me wonder how she ever survived to be my mother.

     A lot of the stories she told were about knitting socks for the war effort, cooking oatmeal for 24 hours, not five minutes.  Rationing of coal made life very uncomfortable on the east coast of Scotland.  I can remember her telling David, my oldest son, that her house would have frost on the walls.  They didn’t have enough coal to keep the house warm all night.  She also talked about the lack of money, but there was always plenty to eat.  Her father worked at a train yard.  When he left work, he would tend a small garden. 

     Her sister Helen married a ‘Yank’ and returned with him to Uvalde, Texas.  During a short stay, Mama met my father and he proposed to her after driving his brand new Buick sedan into an oak tree in the middle of the street.

         They had five children, Roy, John, Michael (me), Mary Ann and Sheena.  After my father passed away, Mama sacrificed her life to raise us.  She did not remarry until many years later.