Me, Betty Jane Latta

and my mother

Mary Elizabeth (Miller) Latta

my wedding day, August 28, 1965

Trinity Brethren Church, Canton, Ohio

My mother, Mary Elizabeth (Miller) Latta made this wedding dress for me. She made most of my clothes as I was growing up. In those days girls were not allowed to wear long pants or jeans to school. We had to wear dresses or skirts and always had to wear shorts under them in case one of the boys would play "wash day" at recess and flick up your skirt.

Some of my clothes were made from feed sacks from Daddy's mill (Latta Brothers in Robertsville, Ohio). At that time the feed sacks came in many cotton prints. Of course, for this, my wedding dress, Mom did not resort to the feed sacks.

Although Daddy didn't make the wedding dress, he was instrumental in the building of this church, the Trinity Brethren Church on 55th Street in Canton, Ohio. We went to church Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, and sometimes on Wednesday evenings too. He was also a deacon at the church.

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