My Mom - Edith Elnora Barrett Golden

I am proud to say that my mom was a tremendous influence in my life. I inherited her love of reading and I pray that I inherited her Christian walk. No one lived out their Christian faith more beautifully than my mom.

She was born in Oakdale, Louisiana, between Lake Charles and Alexandria on 1 April 1923 – our family’s ‘April Fool’ [again, for the record, she went to heaven on 12 July, 2002]. My mom had rickets as a child – due to a vitamin D or calcium deficiency. The doctor wanted to break her legs to straighten them, but my grandparents chose to bind them. It clearly worked, because my mom had great legs.