My mother, Adelia Corinna Brown Forgy, was the 2nd child of George Preston Brown and Lily Oral Harreld Brown. She was born at their farm in Beechland, Kentucky. She loved school and, to attend high school, had to board in town at Lewisburg. She attended both the Logan Female College in Russellville and, what was then, Western State Teachers College in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Now Western Kentucky University). She went to college for about 3 years and then passed the exam required for new teachers. She taught in several one-room schools in the northern part of Logan County until her early 20's. Like her parents, she was a strong Democrat. During that time she was stricken with osteomyelitis in her jaw and had to have extensive treatment in Louisville at the old Norton Hospital, boarding in Old Louisville for several months. Sometime before she was 24 she moved to Toledo, Ohio, where she met my dad, Leo Forgy. He was from Butler County, Kentucky, but she did not know him before. They married right before the stock market crash in 1929. When my dad lost his job, they moved back to Beechland and lived "on the farm". Daddy helped my grandfather farm and Mama taught school again, chiefly at Beechland. Sometime between 1938-1940, they moved to Dayton, Ohio, where Mama got an excellent job at what was then Wright Field and, later, Wright Patterson Air Force Base. She loved her job in what became Air Materiel Command and worked there until she was eligible for retirement. She worked as a house mother at Georgetown College for several years after that, keeping our home in Dayton. She then moved back to Lewisburg, Kentucky, in the house she inherited, along with my aunts, from my grandparents. When she became elderly and in poor health, she had to enter an assisted living facility in Lexington, and live for a short time with my family in Georgetown. She died at the age of 94.
