Linda and Tim are born

   Bill drank almost daily. He would joke over the years how he had a running tab (credit limit) at the liquor store his friend owned and that he would pay it off every weekend and start over because he'd be close to broke. He was also a womanizer. He was handsome with his green eyes, black hair and  his slight olive complexion, he was of German descent. He washed windows and ran cars. There was something missing in his life and it was Mary Ann, she was just too young for him and he didn't know it anyway.
  With her red flaming hair, and beautiful green eyes, she was also a shapely young girl and when she could she wore the taboo RED LIPSTICK she was an eye catcher.
  I remember she had told me about some of the boys in her life and the soldiers she dated.
  The one I remember she talked about was Bobby. He was from down south, he went back home when his time was up and she lost him. Her sisters always competed for boyfriends and my mom, Mary Ann always thought that she could get anyone she wanted and tried.
  In 1945, she met Earl Dolquist, My mother always talked about how awful things were in her younger years. My grandma Moberg, would have men at the house who drank and needed a place to stay. Bad thing was that the men would try to force the girls to have sex with them. My grandma would catch them but allowed them back because she needed the money they gave her to help support my mothers younger sister Marilyn and her crippled sister Ruth.
   Earl, married her and Mary Ann could now leave her house and be free. They moved to I think it was Mississippi. There she became pregnant, or was she already? Rumor has it that she may have been pregnant before she got married by a handsome young mulatto man that her sister Loretta had dated.
  Loretta had a son out of wed lock, Darrell. The rumors were also the same, that Loretta had gotten pregnant by the young man that might have fathered Mary Ann's child.
   Earl sent her home on a bus, back to her family to give birth alone. Mary Ann said she hated it there that Earl had become abusive to her.There would be one more visit from Earl later when he was to see his grown child.
   Mary Ann gave birth to a beautiful dark haired, darker skinned daughter on May 5th, 1947, She named her Linda Lee.
   Grandma Moberg spoiled Linda and Darrell terribly, it was nice to have babies in the house again.
   A couple of years later Mary Ann met another man whose first name I don't remember but his last name was Webber and he was to father another of Mary Ann's children, this time she wasn't legally married because her divorce from Earl wasn't final. She would never see Tim's father again and neither would he.
    Timothy Michael Dolquist was born on June 1, 1951, to an unwed Mary Ann. Timmy was a blond haired, green eyed baby the complete opposite of Linda.