Marian was born March 19, 1934. Her loving parents were Ella Quin Alford Mixon and William Elwood Mixon of McComb, Mississippi. William (Bill) was a talented commercial artist. The couple moved to New Jersey so that Bill could find work running the design and production crews of the everchanging display windows at several large department stores. The section below recounts the harrowing story of Ella Quin's difficult births of her two children. First William Alan Mixon in 1931 and then Marian in 1934. Marian has written a delightful account of her first years in the challenging time of the Great Depression. Her charming, witty and often comical stories of her experiences growing up in New Jersey with her beloved but quite naughty brother, Billy are delightful!
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Marian writes at the conclusion of this chapter:
"The journey I have taken back through generations of ancestors and through my early recollections has been a rich fulfilling experience. I have found meaning, guidance, continuity, and eternity in my own life. This retrospection can create respect for one's place in family and in history. So my dear, dear someday-to-be reader, enjoy my sentimentality and walk confidently with me holding your hand along a journey begun long ago by our ancestors who genetically and through historic choices have placed you where you are today as your steps extend the progression."
"The journey I have taken back through generations of ancestors and through my early recollections has been a rich fulfilling experience. I have found meaning, guidance, continuity, and eternity in my own life. This retrospection can create respect for one's place in family and in history. So my dear, dear someday-to-be reader, enjoy my sentimentality and walk confidently with me holding your hand along a journey begun long ago by our ancestors who genetically and through historic choices have placed you where you are today as your steps extend the progression."
These next sections are Part II of Marian's Autobiography outlining her Elementary School years and the Role World War II would have on the country! She speaks of an era gone by of no television, no cell phones no antibiotics!! When you got an infection, you seriously could die! I love the stories of Marian desperately trying to keep up with the always lively Billy as they fought the Japs!
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This Chapter on Mississippi is probably the most precious to my mother. For many years, Billy and Marian rode the Illinois Central Train, by themselves, to McComb to spend the summers in the bosom of precious, widespread family!
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