Ellen Ann Durkin

I wish I knew more people like her. She was a favored aunt to sit with in my extended family.
There was a volleyball game at Yulan, and Mrs. Durkin was serving. Pat, probably about 13, starts chanting "Ellen Ann Usher" in a playfully insolent way. Now, I was 10 or 11, and using an adult's first name would typically cause a stern reprimand in my house. A lot of the kids were cracking up because of this - shock value - but Mrs. Durkin was laughing the hardest. She tried to serve,...