Carolyn Seng
"Marguerite"

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Garment Pictures

(Photos by Beth Wodnick)

Suburban Fine Arts Center Exhibit Pictures - 2 - 12 July, 2005

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Her name was Marguerite, but everyone called her Daisy. She grew up in a very small town in New York, married Joseph Hogan from Albany and then moved to an even smaller town in West Virginia . In search of work, Daisy, Joseph and their six-week-old daughter (my mother) moved to Chicago in 1899. What a culture shock that must have been!

Sixteen years later, Joseph died of a heart attack. Daisy persevered and finished raising her two children. She survived the Depression, and the death of her first grandchild. I was her only other grandchild, so she had time to take me swimming as well as the theater, circus and zoo. She taught me to sew and crochet, and let me help her bake. She lived a long life—90 years.

She never gave up in the tough times, but went where life took her and bloomed where she was—planted like ANTHEMIS TINCTORA, THE GOLDEN MARGUERITE DAISY.

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