90-year-old looks back

May 31, 2011 |

My full name is Doris Evelyn Carlstrom Shirley. I was born on a Sunday morning, May 15, 1921, in the family farmhouse in Archer. My parents were John Bertel Carlstrom and Hilma Albertina Carlson, who were Latter-day Saint converts from Sweden. So I learned to speak Swedish before I did English.

One of the first things I remember was being allowed to walk a long ways up to the cow barn and playing with the cats and their kittens while my father milked the cows.

My sister, Myra, was born when I was 3 years old. My mother was very ill with tuberculosis, so after Myra's birth my mother's unmarried sister, Aunt Ellen, came and took care of my mother, the new baby and me.

My mother died when I was 5 years old. Before her death she asked that her daughters be taught how to play the piano. So we took piano lessons for many years.

After my mother's funeral, a member of the Archer Ward, John Weeks, came to our home and offered to help pay for her funeral. He was aware my father had spent considerable money when he took my mother to a tuberculosis sanitorium in Pasadena, Calif. A year after my mother's death my dad married her sister, Aunt Ellen.

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