they would turn in their graves

Malala Yousafzai (photograph from nelsonmandela.org) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai https://malala.org/ Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard of Malala Yousafzai. If you’re anything like me, you may not know exactly why you’ve heard of her. Today instead of writing about an influential woman in my own life, I’m just going to refer you to Malala Yousafzai’s Wikipedia article and her foundation's website, so you can learn more about her, like I did today.

Two of May's children (probably Robert and Charles) with Gladys' children Doris and Hubert Edith May Bunger was born in 1884 in Ohio, the youngest child of William A. Bunger and Lydia A. (Michael) Bunger. She always went by “May”. In 1900, May was living with her parents and two of her older brothers, Theodore and Omar, in Butler Township, Darke County, Ohio. She was attending school; her father was a farmer. Her three elder siblings, David, Ozora and Flora, were already married with families of their own. May’s oldest sister, Ozora Ann (Bunger) Clay, was my great-great-grandmother; Ozora’s daughter Alta Gladys Clay, born in 1896, was my great-grandmother. “Aunt May” was a fixture in Gladys’ life from the very beginning. In 1953, Gladys wrote her “Life’s Story,” telling with detail about her grandparents’ home, where her Aunt May was still living. It will serve to show what May’s childhood and young womanhood was like. …My grandparents lived about 1 mile from our little village...

Olive Esther (Harter) Swaidner Olive Esther Harter was born in 1861 in Allen County, Indiana, the eldest child of William H. and Lorinda I. (Hall) Harter. Both William and Lorinda were natives of Ohio; Lorinda’s family arrived in the “unbroken wilderness” of northern Indiana in 1836, when she was still an infant, and William came to Indiana as a young man in 1854. They were married in Allen County, Indiana in 1859 and were living in Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana when the census was taken in 1860. In 1870, William, Lorinda, their children Olive, Theodore, Mildred and Isaac, and a Catherine Harter, aged 23 years (relationship unknown) were living in Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana. William was a farmer with $3000 in real estate and $400 in personal property. The 1880 census located the Harter family (William, Lorinda, Olive, Theodore, Mildred, Isaac and Lorinda’s father Isaac Hall) residing in Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana. William and his father-i...

Sarah Báldy, 1964 Sarah Elizabeth Báldy was born in 1940 in Hungary, and spent her early childhood in Hungary. Sarah, her parents and younger sister were “displaced persons” leaving Bremerhaven, Germany on the   USS General Muir   on 31 March 1951, bound for New York City. Their destination was listed as Detroit, Michigan. Sarah also traveled from Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1962 on Pan American Airlines. She graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit in the early 1960s. Sarah was a French and German teacher in Oak Park High School in 1964 and 1965. She was married to Joseph Z. Renvez about 1965 and temporarily left teaching to raise her family – she and Joseph had four daughters. Sarah returned to the teaching profession in the late 1970s and I met her in the fall of 1990, in my senior year at Avondale High School. I was not privileged to know her even as well as I knew most of my other high school teachers. I took first-year German as an independent study, because th...