My Trails into the Past

My grandmother, Anna M. Hork, was sixty-two years old when I was born. I was the fifth grandchild of fifteen and my parents gave her six altogether. My dad’s two sisters gave her nine between them. Anne, as she called herself, was a school teacher when she met my grandfather, William Cyril Hork. They married in 1922 and moved to Southern California. Likely, Cyril liked the climate that he experienced there when he was in training in San Diego and stationed in San Pedro during World War I. Of course in those days, once married, women teachers became housewives. This she did until she and Cyril separated. Raising four children alone, she worked in coffee houses and cafes both in Southern California and later in Napa, where her brother-in-law, Vir Quigley urged her to move to. Because she had studied teaching in Montana, she had to return to school in California to be able to teach there. She attended San Francisco State and received a teaching credential. Her teaching exper...