Marcella Eileen Dirks arrived (born) at the Marshall Farm near Fonda on July 20, 1929.  Just in time for dinner.  It was on a Saturday night at as busy time when threshing as going one.  Her hair was dark and an inch long. She had 3-sisters and 4-brothers to welcome her.  She was baptized that fall in the Evangelical Church in Pomeroy.

When she was a half-year-old she went with me to Chicago on an excursion over Labor Day. That was only $4 round trip from Fonda to Chicago in those days.  She cried and cried and we couldn't do a thing with her. She much have been terribly scarred but as soon as we got back home and see seen Brownie (the dog) it was all over and she was glad to be home.

She was a real climber and crawled on top of everything and sure rough. She would fall and get hurt every time. She started to walk when she was 1-year old.

She was daddy's little girl. He bought her a nice red hat when she was real small and to the barn she went with the rest of the kids. One of the cows got after her and that scared them all.  Another time she fell into the stock tank and about drowned, lucky an older brother (Fred) was there to pull her out.

She started to school when she was 5-years old, had her tonsils taken out when she was 10-years old and they grew back, and had to have it done all over.