“At the age of 92, Gerry has a lot of history to tell. Being ten years of age when the stock market crashed in 1929, she spent her pre-teen and teenage years during the Great Depression. She grew up on a farm in Latimer County, Oklahoma.
Being the seventh of eight children, Gerry was given the responsibility of helping her mother with many duties after her older siblings left home. She shared with her mother the work of cooking to feed the share-croppers on their farm.