Joy Neal Kidney
The five brothers on the Dallas County Freedom Rock have ties to Perry. All five Wilson brothers served in World War II. Only two came home.
For decades, Grandma Leora and her daughters took Memorial Day flowers to Violet Hill...
In December 1943, Clabe and Leora Wilson were struggling to get all the work done on the farm near Minburn, where they were tenant farmers. Since their youngest son, Junior, had joined the Army Air Force two months earlier,...
When Memorial Day nears, my thoughts are always drawn to Violet Hill Cemetery. I wonder what it was like for my grandparents that first time after World War II.
Clabe and Leora Wilson had bought an acreage in late 1944,...
At Perry’s Violet Hill Cemetery, when the women in my family would take home-grown flowers to arrange into bouquets for Memorial Day, a few times my mother would point out the headstone of Clint Knee, one of Iowa’s first...