Northeastern Kansas, Nemaha County, (about 100 miles
northwest of Kansas City). Here, I grew up and attended Maur Hill Prep
School and St. Benedict's College (Benedictine College) at Atchison, Kansas
between two years in the military overseas. My mother, a graduate of Mount
St. Scholastica Academy (Atchison) in 1922, raised the seven of us by
herself who were fourteen or less upon our father's death in 1944, on the
Baileyville, Kansas farm before there was Social Security coverage for
farms. She passed away November 12, 1999.