THE CROCHETING GRANDMOTHER AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The "Crocheting" Grandmother and Great-grandmother is now 88 years young.
    Mrs. Louis (Emma) Tomes, a former Clarksonite ­ now residing at Thermopolis, Wyoming at Canyon Village, in between the Wyoming Mountain area.
    Emma, a wife of former Clarkson and Leigh businessman, is now a widow and lives near her only son, Dennis and his family, who live at Thermopolis, Wyoming.
    Emma is a busy grandmother, who uses her crippled arthritic fingers with a makeshift crochet hook. She uses a knitting needles about 8 or 10 inches in length. Then she pads it with cotton and covers the cotton with adhesive tape. This has given her crippled fingers a padded surface to crochet.
    Emma, a little, friendly, person has completed over 200 hundred (sic) afghans. Last week she mailed an afghan to some friends in Omaha, Nebraska, who were her neighbors when they resided in Leigh, Nebraska.
    Emma, besides making afghans, makes hundreds of pillows, baby blankets and booties and many, many novelty craft articles.
    Now her busy days are crocheting articles for the Thermopolis Hospital Auxiliary. The hospital furnishes the crochet yarn, but she donates all the work. She says, "I have to keep busy or go goofy".
    Emma has only one son, Dennis, two granddaughters and two great-granddaughters and anticipating a third great grandchild in June. Most of her family members reside at Thermopolis (remainder cut off in reproduction).
[Colfax County Press, May 5, 1984, pg 12, col 4-5 - Submitted by Ted and Carole Miller]