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Hazel L. Younker, The Bartender

Written By: Brandon


 

       On January 17,1931 Hazel Younker was born. With her sister she grew up on a small farm in Pennsylvania. I now know her as Mom-Mom. She is caring for anyone that asks her to help her but she sometimes can have a fit but she loves those who have helped her along her way up until now. She is 68. She still remembers the best moments of her life. That is why I have taken the time to interview her and tell you about her amazing life.
    She had many memories in her younger life. Mom-Mom has one sister Dorothy Leonard. She grew up with her sister. She didn’t grow up around boys except for her Dad and the boys in school. She had many chores. She had to do about five chores in one day. But these chores were not easy. Mom-Mom had to help her sister cook and carry wood. She walked to school about a half-mile. She thinks that those days were harder then now I think she is right. Her father loved her whatever she did he helped her.
    Later in her life she went to high school and met new friends, one of those friends she loved to be with. His name was Charles she went to dances with him. She loved him no matter what he did she would forgive him. Later she didn’t go to college. She and Charles went out a lot and later wanted to be married.
     Later after all her friends were out of College she married to Charles in 1961, as she always wanted to. Mom-Mom went to some dances after they got married. Mom-Mom loved to go out to dinner with him. But, in 1989 Pop-Pop went to the hospital he came out in 3 or 4 months. He wasn’t in good condition until a year later.
Her in her life she had to get surgery on her knee in 1995. Mom-Mom hated the surgery because she was away from her family. Charles also died in 1995. Mom-Mom did not like that year because many things went wrong like her husband went into the hospital twice but died the second time he went in. She hates to think about that but she does. Because she now knows that he is in a better place. She really wanted him back but she can’t get him back until she dies.
     Now she lives in Baltimore County she lives in a small town house. She visits my Aunt and me a lot because she loves us and wants to spend as much time as she can with us. So she barley has time at her house if we need her she will be here so she is one of the most reliable people that I know. She also buys many things for us when we need it.

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