Mrs. Figg Biography

On June 30th, 1960, a Legend was born. This legend is Lynn Figg. Mrs. Figg and I grew up in two completely different lifestyles.
Mrs. Figg grew up in Epworth, Iowa. She along with her eight brothers and sisters all grew up on a farm. Her family was self-sufficient . They had a very large garden which they grew vegetables and fruit in. They had livestock to eat off of. They only thing they did not have was milk. As she was growing up she had chores. She and her siblings had to feed the livestock, and do the dishes. Lynn’s Parents made a schedule for her family and posted it on the cupboard door. The kids would have to rotate in breakfast, lunch and dinner. They were not given an allowance for the chores they completed. Her parents told her that were …show more content…
For instance milk and other groceries,they had to travel into the town which was two miles away from their house. Her mother tracked the amount of milk they drank in a week and it added up to be about eighteen gallons. If they wanted to get clothes or they needed an excessive amount of groceries and clothing they would have to travel to the nearest city which was twenty six miles away. Her family had a truck because of the farm and they also had a car. They did not travel much in the car because there were not any car seats and they did not use their seatbelts. Mrs. Figg went to a catholic school from kindergarten year to her eighth grade year. Her eighth grade year there were 12 kids in her class. She got to school by riding her bike to the end of the road and then a bus would pick her up When she went to a public high school and the bus could pick her up at the front of her house. Growing up on a farm did not give many options for fun. Mrs. Figg usually played with her siblings and on the weekends their cousins would come to their farm. They would play board games, do puzzles, and they were really big into cards. When Mrs. Figg was in eighth grade a tornado went through her farm. John F. Kennedy was shot