She eventually owned a restaurant with my Aunt Georgie in lovely backwater Arcadia, IN.
She was born in 1904 and grew up a very poor sharecropper in rural AR & MO, moving north steadily over early adulthood into IN, chasing better-paying factory jobs.
I LOVE okra my Grandma used to grow it in her backyard garden every year, along with other stuff like rhubarb and squashes.