Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

An installation by Marie Watt commemorating Northwest servicemen and -women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Luverne Nelson
1916–1994
Submitted by Jim Harlan

She had model-like looks, she was stylish and she was self-educated. An earthy Norwegian farm girl who made cowboy coffee, doughnuts and baked bread every Sunday. Calm, stoic, raised chickens, sewed clothes and made the world’s best banana cream pie.