I brought two cancelled checks that my grandmother wrote. One was in March of 1927 and the other is in May of 1928. These two checks in and among themselves are not so important except that they represent something about my grandmother.

I learned years after she had died that my grandfather did not allow her to sign checks for a long time. He would sign a check and give it to her to buy groceries, for instance. So this went on…and then one day he signed a [blank] check and she went and bought a building. She bought a rental building in my home town in Hardin, Montana.

The fact that she just said enough I’m going to take action tells me so much about her.

This belongs in the Really Great Things Grandmother Did Museum

Exhibited by Janean Marie Koebbe

Transcript edited by Susan Golland