She even remembers the purchase of the land by her parents, which has been in their family for many generations. In 1936, her parents used a bonus her father had earned from serving in World War I to purchase the plot of land.
At the time, the family needed only $700 to buy the land. She remembers that when they first purchased the land, her mother and her veteran father did not even own a car. To get to the property, they had to hire a driver.
“My parents hired someone to transport them to the property when they learned about the land for sale because they didn’t even own a car. The farm had a two-room home and twenty acres, less an acre that was used as a Native American grave in the centre of the property, according to Patricia.
