Memories Live On - Lois McIntyre Troutman and Verne C. Troutman

My mother, Lois McIntyre Troutman, was a writer. After her husband took her to Nebraska to live on a farm in the wide open spaces, so different from the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, she wrote letters to her parents describing the details of her life there. Her father once commented that receiving a letter from Lois was like reading National Geographic. She wrote volumes of letters to her parents, her siblings, her in-laws, her friends, and then to her children when we went off to college or married and moved to locations far from her. She wrote devotionals for her women’s group at her church. She wrote essays for her college classes. These are her stories, the ones she wrote before she lost her eyesight. Also included are notes her husband wrote for his grandchildren of his life growing up in Nebraska. These stories keep the memories alive.