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Grandma Cilla |
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Nancy was born in Gladwin, Michigan to James and Eva Bender in 1939. James worked on the C & O Railroad out of Saginaw and Eva was a school teacher, serving in several country schools. She has one sister, Dorothy living in White Cloud, and one brother, Bud, deceased. The family lived on Spring Street.
Nancy got her first horse at the age of 7. She began piano lessons at 7 ½. She loved cowboy and Indian books and movies and called her first horse Trigger. There were several horses between Trigger and Q-T, one of the last ones. But Q-T was the little black mare most Gladwin folks will remember running home on her own, leaving Nancy alone downtown when the fire whistle went off one day. She was also the one tied up at parking meters on various days in front of Dewey Ogden’s grocery store or Capling’s Hardware.
Upon graduation, Nancy went to work for the Midland Daily News. She held many interesting jobs, including working in the Pentagon for 13 months. She retired from Florida Department of Transportation and has three children, one girl, and two boys.
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