Daughter of John I. and Dewey E. Risenhoover Hicks. Her grandparents were Zachariah Taylor Hicks and Saphronia Hill Hicks and Nicholas Risenhoover and Ann Harvey Risenhoover.
Edna attended school at Waters through grade four; she then enrolled at Central School at Pencil Bluff for grades five and six and Oden School for grades six through eleven. She married during her junior year and dropped out of school for one year then completed her high school studies at Big Fork School in Polk County.
She married O.R. "Ottis" Gortemiller on Christmas Day, 1938 at the home of Henry Mourton, Justice of the Peace, in Cherry Hill.
The first home Edna and Ottis lived in was south of the Ouachita River and southeast of Waters. The house belonged to Ottis's grandparents and had no windows in the back bedroom and wide cracks in the floor.
They sold their first bale of cotton in 1939 and with the proceeds bought an Alladin kerosene lamp, a gasoline iron, a rub board, a skirt, two sweaters, and a Mackinaw jacket for Ottis.
During WWII, Ottis and Edna moved to Houston, Texas where Edna worked twenty-one years for Gulf Oil and the county government. She and Ottis moved back to Montgomery County in 1972.
She and Ottis had three children: Bobby, Debra and Gary.
Source: Condensed from an article by Kathryn Stucker of the Pine Ridge E.H. Club, April 29, 1986, which was itself condensed from a publication Herstory, compiled by the Montgomery County Extension Homemaker Council. Published in Montgomery County Our Heritage Vol. 2, copyright 1990, pg. 777-778
Edna attended school at Waters through grade four; she then enrolled at Central School at Pencil Bluff for grades five and six and Oden School for grades six through eleven. She married during her junior year and dropped out of school for one year then completed her high school studies at Big Fork School in Polk County.
She married O.R. "Ottis" Gortemiller on Christmas Day, 1938 at the home of Henry Mourton, Justice of the Peace, in Cherry Hill.
The first home Edna and Ottis lived in was south of the Ouachita River and southeast of Waters. The house belonged to Ottis's grandparents and had no windows in the back bedroom and wide cracks in the floor.
They sold their first bale of cotton in 1939 and with the proceeds bought an Alladin kerosene lamp, a gasoline iron, a rub board, a skirt, two sweaters, and a Mackinaw jacket for Ottis.
During WWII, Ottis and Edna moved to Houston, Texas where Edna worked twenty-one years for Gulf Oil and the county government. She and Ottis moved back to Montgomery County in 1972.
She and Ottis had three children: Bobby, Debra and Gary.
Source: Condensed from an article by Kathryn Stucker of the Pine Ridge E.H. Club, April 29, 1986, which was itself condensed from a publication Herstory, compiled by the Montgomery County Extension Homemaker Council. Published in Montgomery County Our Heritage Vol. 2, copyright 1990, pg. 777-778
Daughter of John I. and Dewey E. Risenhoover Hicks. Her grandparents were Zachariah Taylor Hicks and Saphronia Hill Hicks and Nicholas Risenhoover and Ann Harvey Risenhoover.
Edna attended school at Waters through grade four; she then enrolled at Central School at Pencil Bluff for grades five and six and Oden School for grades six through eleven. She married during her junior year and dropped out of school for one year then completed her high school studies at Big Fork School in Polk County.
She married O.R. "Ottis" Gortemiller on Christmas Day, 1938 at the home of Henry Mourton, Justice of the Peace, in Cherry Hill.
The first home Edna and Ottis lived in was south of the Ouachita River and southeast of Waters. The house belonged to Ottis's grandparents and had no windows in the back bedroom and wide cracks in the floor.
They sold their first bale of cotton in 1939 and with the proceeds bought an Alladin kerosene lamp, a gasoline iron, a rub board, a skirt, two sweaters, and a Mackinaw jacket for Ottis.
During WWII, Ottis and Edna moved to Houston, Texas where Edna worked twenty-one years for Gulf Oil and the county government. She and Ottis moved back to Montgomery County in 1972.
She and Ottis had three children: Bobby, Debra and Gary.
Source: Condensed from an article by Kathryn Stucker of the Pine Ridge E.H. Club, April 29, 1986, which was itself condensed from a publication Herstory, compiled by the Montgomery County Extension Homemaker Council. Published in Montgomery County Our Heritage Vol. 2, copyright 1990, pg. 777-778
Edna attended school at Waters through grade four; she then enrolled at Central School at Pencil Bluff for grades five and six and Oden School for grades six through eleven. She married during her junior year and dropped out of school for one year then completed her high school studies at Big Fork School in Polk County.
She married O.R. "Ottis" Gortemiller on Christmas Day, 1938 at the home of Henry Mourton, Justice of the Peace, in Cherry Hill.
The first home Edna and Ottis lived in was south of the Ouachita River and southeast of Waters. The house belonged to Ottis's grandparents and had no windows in the back bedroom and wide cracks in the floor.
They sold their first bale of cotton in 1939 and with the proceeds bought an Alladin kerosene lamp, a gasoline iron, a rub board, a skirt, two sweaters, and a Mackinaw jacket for Ottis.
During WWII, Ottis and Edna moved to Houston, Texas where Edna worked twenty-one years for Gulf Oil and the county government. She and Ottis moved back to Montgomery County in 1972.
She and Ottis had three children: Bobby, Debra and Gary.
Source: Condensed from an article by Kathryn Stucker of the Pine Ridge E.H. Club, April 29, 1986, which was itself condensed from a publication Herstory, compiled by the Montgomery County Extension Homemaker Council. Published in Montgomery County Our Heritage Vol. 2, copyright 1990, pg. 777-778
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