Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

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

56.
Mary Dollarhide
1881–1981
Submitted by Kazu Ohashi

My father’s mother. A counterpoint for the extensive family on my mother’s side. Willpower and dedication are the dominant traits for these women. Warren Dollarhide was her third husband. They married in 1961 in Atkinson, Nebraska. He was 59 and she was 75. After he died, Grandma went to Idaho to live with family and lived until 93 or 96.