January 24, 1932 was a very special day for two parents living in Chicago, Illinois.  They walked home with Arlene Korngiebel.  She has one living brother, Barry Joseph Korngiebel, who lives in California.  Nana had another brother that died at birth.  This is whom I now know as Nana.  She currently lives in Street and is 69 years old.  Nana has one pet, a shiatsu named Susie.
     When she was a child she attended St. Morris grade school.  When she learned how to read she would read her little brother Hardy Boy books which he really loved.  Nana had one pet a small dog named Toy.  Her house, when bought was turned into an apartment and one of the renters had a larger dog.  One day when this large dog and Toy met, the larger dog had Toy’s whole head in his mouth.  But Toy did not get hurt.  Nana freaked out when she saw this.  As a kid her chores were to shave the soap to go in the laundry.  It came in a bar. She also scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms and did ironing.  In school she had a very mean principal named Sister Cloteal.  They were Sisters of St. Francis and wore brown robes called habits.
    The older she got the more she wanted to be what her dad had been which was like an accountant.  She remembers a story about a man who owned the house before them. His name was Mr. King. He was against “The Mob” and she said, “ ‘The Mob’ came after him one day.”  If you go down underneath the porch in the concrete there is machine gun bullet holes.
     In High School she attended the Praline Academy for her first two years.  In the last two years of her High School she attended Sienna High School.  She spent most of her spare time in parks, going out to dinner, going to the movies or just with her family.  She didn’t have any kids around the areas that were her age.  All her friends were from school.
     She attended the DePaul University for a two-year secretarial course in downtown Chicago.  Her very first job was in Mama Cookie’s.  On days when they would make macaroons, Nana’s mother would make her hang her clothes out back.  The smell was very strong and bothered her, her mother, and her brother.  Her next job was at Walker’s, which was a small department store.
     For St. Patrick’s Day, one of Nana’s friends, Caroline Klutch, was dating Bob West who lives in St. Louis.  Caroline didn’t want to go on the train by herself so she begged Nana to come with her.  Bob West got Dick Norman to be Nana’s date.  They had a great time at the dance.  Then they started dating more often.  That Christmas Dick Norman stayed with Nana.  Then on St. Patrick’s Day, 1956, they were engaged. In the same year on August 11, they were married at age 25.
    They had 5 kids, 4 girls and 1 boy.  The oldest being my Uncle Matt, then my Mom, Sara, then my Aunt Teresa and Aunt Mary who were twins and then my Aunt Amy.  My Aunt Amy used to live in California but she moved from California all the way to Maryland in a car.  My Uncle Matt now lives in South Carolina.  The others live in Maryland. She has ten grandchildren
     She spends her time now playing cards like bridge, poker, and rummy.  She also likes to go out to dinner or go to the movies.  She also enjoys going to church every Sunday.  She is a Catholic and goes to St. Ignatius in Hickory.
     Nana’s son Matt was very crazy as a teen.  Nana always said to him, "What goes around comes around.”  When he grew up and had kids his kids were just like him when he was their age.    My grandmother likes to say, “Waste not, want not,” and “No dogs allowed.”  My own mother, Sara, probably says, “Life isn’t fair,” every day.
     When I was younger I remember always trying to get to the cookie jar at Nana’s house.  I tried to sneak a cookie but the lid always made noise.  The cookie jar had a man holding a piece of paper, which reads, “Thou shall not steal (cookies).”