A Woman of the Century, Frances Minerva Nunnery (1898–1997): Her Story in Her Own Memorable Voice as Told to Cecil Dawkins

Acknowledgments

❙ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ❙ ❙ xiii ❙ First of all, for the treasure that became this book I’m indebted to Frances herself, a woman whose schooling stopped after the third grade but whose learning and accomplishments continued till the end of her remarkable life. In addition I am grateful to Janice Mars,without whose loyalty and help Frances would not have been able,at age ninety-two and almost blind, to record the six tapes telling me her life story. I also thank Janice for her invaluable encouragement throughout this project. For help with clarifying details from days on the ranch my gratitude to Frances’s stepdaughters Dorothy Major and Darlene Hall. I am grateful to Frances’s granddaughter Sara Peck and stepdaughter Dorothy Major for supplying photographs of Frances’s early days in Albuquerque and on the ranch,and to Janice Mars and Sally Whiteley for later photographs,particularly from Frances’s life in Taos. ...