Joanne Marie
Woodyatt ( my sister ) was born at home in Sterling, Illinois. She was
born dead, a blue still-birth baby, She was the the only child born to my mother where there
was a real doctor in attendance. The doctor did everything he could to bring Joanne to life but finally gave up!
Pop would have none of this! He grabbed the kid, and
ran off to perform some kind of weird magic. Soon Joanne was heard to be screaming as if the flood gates of hell had
opened. To this day, Joanne has a real talent for screaming.
She was also very tiny at birth, set some kind of record.
Pop made her a crib from an old shoe box which he placed in an open drawer in the bedroom.
