Cathleen Springer

Mother’s Day In the Country – Our Family’s Tradition

Thanks to Grandma Mamie, our Mother’s Day tradition began back in the 1920’s. As the oldest of the twelve children in her family, my maternal grandmother married Michael Springer, one of the boarders in her family’s home back in Calumet, Michigan, in 1911. Over the next years, they had five young ones of their own. Some time during the 1920’s, Grandma Mamie, having since moved across country to San... (posted by Cathleen 5 years 24 days ago.)