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What's Cookin'? Horse club ladie00
?he has 'Jolley' good fun fiddling change January00 1
ti g d ]
With warm, twinkling eyes and Nee n ate
an energetic gait, Martha (Stock) Due to New Year s Day thlling be payable at the Janu
Jolley looks so young, even her on the first Tuesday in January, ing. Ladies age 18 and
ap]
doctor forgets she's not still 65.
the Equestrienne of Mason County be interested:, in joining fm
Thelast month.truth is, she just turned 90 have changed their meeting date. trienne are invited to at e
Martha was born in Victor on This month, they will meet at 7 p.m. meeting room will be ope =.
November 19, 1917. She grew up on Tuesday, January 8, at Taylor tbr dinner and visiting. I tq)
in Mason County and graduated Station Restaurant at 62 SE Lynch topic this month is how t S
people and animals affect t!
from Vaughn School. In fact, she
recently reunited with a classmate
of hers. After almost a century in
the area, Martha hasn't moved
far from where she grew up. She's
currently in Allyn.
"I love it here! It's great!" she
says. "It's home, you know? I've al-
ways lived around here."
She also appreciates living in a
community near many people her
own age. While she may not have
moved far geographically, Martha
hasn't let age hold her back from
reaching her goals. For example, in
her 80s, she became reinspired to
pick up the fiddle, an instrument
her big brother had first taught
her to play when she was 14.
MARTHA WAS the seventh
of 10 surviving children, growing
up during the Great Depression.
Her fond memories of those days
include playing baseball with the
other children and growing large
gardens to help feed everyone
when food was scarce. Out of ne-
cessity, she learned to sew at a
young age and would make clothes
out of flour sacks.
"We had nothing. We went bare-
footed in the summertime," she re-
members.
Dealing with the financial hard-
ships of the time instilled a strong,
lasting work ethic and cultivated
creativity in her. Gardening and
sewing have been two of her fa-
vorite hobbies and, ironically, au-
thentic flour sack cloth is now a
prized commodity among quilters,
she says.
During most of her childhood,
her parents had farmed and
butchered. Her father also helped
perform veterinary services in
the community. By the time she
started high school, her parents
had opened Stock Winery at Rocky
Bay, which specialized in fruit
wines.
ON JULY 4, 1939, Martha
Stock married Frank JolIey. Then
her husband became a salesman
for her parents' winery. "It was
neat," she remembers. Her older
brother Bill, the one who intro-
duced her to the violin, helped
work with the laboratory side of
the wine industry. "He was re-
ally somethingV she recalls of her
brother.
At different times, Frank also
worked for a dairy and Martha
worked as a cook at a restaurant in
Shelton. The two also owned a gro-
cery store. She still enjoys cooking,
especially baking "bumbleberry
pie" which is a special combination
of strawberries, blueberries, rasp-
berries, rhubarb and apples.
Martha and her husband went
on to have three children, Sharon
Floyd, Charlotte Berry and Mi-
chael. These days, Martha also
has three grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Her daughter Sharon inspired
her to start quilting in the mid-
1990s, after she brought her quilt
projects home with her, "and the
next thing I knew," Sharon re-
calls, "she was"... "beating er,"
chimes in Martha with a mischie-
vous smile.
MARTHA TOOK off with quilt-
ing, making more than 20 quilts
and even selling one. "All the kids
have a quilt now," she says.
When her children were grow-
ing up, Martha would sew manyl
of their clothes. Later she incorpo-
rated pieces of these clothes into a
piecing quilt. She appreciates the
feeling of accomplishment quilting
gives her.
Now sewing and crocheting are
still among her favorite pastimes.
, No Gontmctsi
,i
FIDDLE IN HER ARMS, Martha Jolley stands with some
of her original paintings hanging on the wall behind her.
She once crocheted 105 blouses out
of a special, shiny yarn design she
bought in Mexico, done in a spe-
cial, picot-eyelet lace. Toward the
end of this project, she was able to
crank out the blouses in a hurry.
Martha managed to sell 104 of
these garments, keeping one for
her own use. For fun, she also
makes porcelain dolls, along with
their clothes and accessories.
Now long since retired, she has
enjoyed taking "snowbirding" trips
down to Arizona in the winter. At
first,-she would travel with her
husband but after she became a
widow Martha began dating Gor-
don Brown. He is a widower who
was her husband's best friend,
harking back to the days when
they worked together for the coun-
ty road department.
SINCE RETIREMENT, her
zest for life has blossomed all over
again. Not only did she pick up the
fiddle again, she's also taught her-
self a little mandolin and become a
commissioned painter.
"Going south, I just thought I
would like to start painting and
I took lessons there," she says.
Painting offers her a creative out-
let and the walls of her home now
display some of her original work.
She also has fun making layered,
floral cutout pictures.
One of her friends in Allyn has
a daughter who works for Tavola-
ta Pasta Company, who hired her
to paint an Italian scene for its
product label. Now, her rendition
of white, red-roofed Italian houses
nestled by a sunny bay are embla-
zoned on pasta jars of this brand,
which sell at Sam's Club stores.
Her inspiration ibr the design was
adapted from an original photo-
graph of an Italian setting.
For about five winters in a row,
Martha took private fiddle lessons
and then took part in music jams
with fellow retirees in Arizona.
"Oh! There's so many good musi-
cians down there," she says. "I love
the fiddling."
EVERY APRIL she looks for-
ward to attending the local Old-
Time Fiddlers' Fest, as well as a
similar festival in Sequim. Martha
and Gordon love music and used to
have a great time dancing togeth-
er.
Though she is still active as a
Page 14 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 27, 2007
member of the neighborhood birth-
day club, a regular pinochle player
and a frequent guest of the casi-
no, Martha's travels have slowed
down recently. On the up side, she
is glad to be spending Christmas
with her family for a change.
"It's kind of a quiet life, any-
more," she considers.
In honor of' her 90th birthday,
her friends and family from both
sides of the family joined tbrces to
host a birthday bash at the Lake-
Land Village Clubhouse, overlook-
ing the water. "It was just neat!"
she remembers fondly.
Her daughter Sharon is already
thinking about plans for Martha's
100th birthday party. "l say I can't
die, because I've got too much to
do," Martha says.
She shared two recipes. The
first is for a dish she recommends
for potlucks, because it makes
"plenty to go around."
Chinese Hash
Ingredients:
2 1/2 lb. ground beef
1 can mushroom soup
1 can chicken soup
1 C. uncooked rice
Bean sprouts, water chestnuts
and mushrooms to taste
1 C. celery
1 C. onion
1/4 C. soy sauce
2 C. water
Chinese noodles
Preparation:
Combine all the above ingredi-
ents except the Chinese noodles.
Bake uncovered at 350 degrees
Fahrenheit tbr 45 minutes. Then
add the Chinese noodles on top
and bake for an additional 15 min-
utes.
She also shared how to make
her favorite frosting:
Flour Icing
Ingredients:
5 Tbsp. flour
1 C. milk
1 C. sugar
1 C. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation:
Cook flour and milk together
until thick. Let cool. Cream to-
gether sugar, butter and vanilla.
Add them to the first mixture.
Beat together well until it reaches
the right consistency to spread
over a cake.
Ver 25 years ot
exhaust
Road in Shelton. All future 2008
meetings will return to the normal
schedule on the first Tuesday of
each month.
Membership dues for 2008 will
recent flooding. Intereste
are invited to bring their
inibrmation regarding tb
with them to the meeting.
N()minate someone for
annual chamber awardt00
Tis the season for chamber mere- ber Volunteer of the Year.I
bers to nominate people for annual Nominations must be t
awards. Shelton-Mason County to the chamber by J e
Chamber of Commerce newsletters Local service club presi o
contain ballots for nominations, administer the judging Till P
," " It
Categories include: Business of the will be honored at the
Year,lCitizen of the Year and cham- annual awards dinner in at
Sandy Branner
Owner
* 25 Years Experience J
(9 in Shelton & Mason County) 1 d
- E-filing ] :.
SANDY'S ]
BOOKKEEPING & TAX SER¥ ]
1065 St. Rte. 3 (by Tupper Floors} 427-3 II v
Fax: (360)427-31
NORTHWEST FLOWER
arden Show SHOW TICKETS $16
Durangos
Western work boots
Mustang sole
Women's and men's
Durango western boots
Hathorn
Western boots
custom made
:.#yi,
Rocky
by Georgia
IRONCLAD
Waterproof safety toe
Georgias
Women's safety toe boots
Western women's & men's
Georgia Giants
Waterproof Gore-Tex
Naot
Ladies'
ls
All sale items limited to stock on hand, Sale ends
"Your Workwear Headquarters"
SHELTON • 930 Johns Prairie Road. 417-426$
HOURS
Mon thru Fri * Sat 10-5 * Sun 11-4
What's Cookin'? Horse club ladie00
?he has 'Jolley' good fun fiddling change January00 1
ti g d ]
With warm, twinkling eyes and Nee n ate
an energetic gait, Martha (Stock) Due to New Year s Day thlling be payable at the Janu
Jolley looks so young, even her on the first Tuesday in January, ing. Ladies age 18 and
ap]
doctor forgets she's not still 65.
the Equestrienne of Mason County be interested:, in joining fm
Thelast month.truth is, she just turned 90 have changed their meeting date. trienne are invited to at e
Martha was born in Victor on This month, they will meet at 7 p.m. meeting room will be ope =.
November 19, 1917. She grew up on Tuesday, January 8, at Taylor tbr dinner and visiting. I tq)
in Mason County and graduated Station Restaurant at 62 SE Lynch topic this month is how t S
people and animals affect t!
from Vaughn School. In fact, she
recently reunited with a classmate
of hers. After almost a century in
the area, Martha hasn't moved
far from where she grew up. She's
currently in Allyn.
"I love it here! It's great!" she
says. "It's home, you know? I've al-
ways lived around here."
She also appreciates living in a
community near many people her
own age. While she may not have
moved far geographically, Martha
hasn't let age hold her back from
reaching her goals. For example, in
her 80s, she became reinspired to
pick up the fiddle, an instrument
her big brother had first taught
her to play when she was 14.
MARTHA WAS the seventh
of 10 surviving children, growing
up during the Great Depression.
Her fond memories of those days
include playing baseball with the
other children and growing large
gardens to help feed everyone
when food was scarce. Out of ne-
cessity, she learned to sew at a
young age and would make clothes
out of flour sacks.
"We had nothing. We went bare-
footed in the summertime," she re-
members.
Dealing with the financial hard-
ships of the time instilled a strong,
lasting work ethic and cultivated
creativity in her. Gardening and
sewing have been two of her fa-
vorite hobbies and, ironically, au-
thentic flour sack cloth is now a
prized commodity among quilters,
she says.
During most of her childhood,
her parents had farmed and
butchered. Her father also helped
perform veterinary services in
the community. By the time she
started high school, her parents
had opened Stock Winery at Rocky
Bay, which specialized in fruit
wines.
ON JULY 4, 1939, Martha
Stock married Frank JolIey. Then
her husband became a salesman
for her parents' winery. "It was
neat," she remembers. Her older
brother Bill, the one who intro-
duced her to the violin, helped
work with the laboratory side of
the wine industry. "He was re-
ally somethingV she recalls of her
brother.
At different times, Frank also
worked for a dairy and Martha
worked as a cook at a restaurant in
Shelton. The two also owned a gro-
cery store. She still enjoys cooking,
especially baking "bumbleberry
pie" which is a special combination
of strawberries, blueberries, rasp-
berries, rhubarb and apples.
Martha and her husband went
on to have three children, Sharon
Floyd, Charlotte Berry and Mi-
chael. These days, Martha also
has three grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Her daughter Sharon inspired
her to start quilting in the mid-
1990s, after she brought her quilt
projects home with her, "and the
next thing I knew," Sharon re-
calls, "she was"... "beating er,"
chimes in Martha with a mischie-
vous smile.
MARTHA TOOK off with quilt-
ing, making more than 20 quilts
and even selling one. "All the kids
have a quilt now," she says.
When her children were grow-
ing up, Martha would sew manyl
of their clothes. Later she incorpo-
rated pieces of these clothes into a
piecing quilt. She appreciates the
feeling of accomplishment quilting
gives her.
Now sewing and crocheting are
still among her favorite pastimes.
, No Gontmctsi
,i
FIDDLE IN HER ARMS, Martha Jolley stands with some
of her original paintings hanging on the wall behind her.
She once crocheted 105 blouses out
of a special, shiny yarn design she
bought in Mexico, done in a spe-
cial, picot-eyelet lace. Toward the
end of this project, she was able to
crank out the blouses in a hurry.
Martha managed to sell 104 of
these garments, keeping one for
her own use. For fun, she also
makes porcelain dolls, along with
their clothes and accessories.
Now long since retired, she has
enjoyed taking "snowbirding" trips
down to Arizona in the winter. At
first,-she would travel with her
husband but after she became a
widow Martha began dating Gor-
don Brown. He is a widower who
was her husband's best friend,
harking back to the days when
they worked together for the coun-
ty road department.
SINCE RETIREMENT, her
zest for life has blossomed all over
again. Not only did she pick up the
fiddle again, she's also taught her-
self a little mandolin and become a
commissioned painter.
"Going south, I just thought I
would like to start painting and
I took lessons there," she says.
Painting offers her a creative out-
let and the walls of her home now
display some of her original work.
She also has fun making layered,
floral cutout pictures.
One of her friends in Allyn has
a daughter who works for Tavola-
ta Pasta Company, who hired her
to paint an Italian scene for its
product label. Now, her rendition
of white, red-roofed Italian houses
nestled by a sunny bay are embla-
zoned on pasta jars of this brand,
which sell at Sam's Club stores.
Her inspiration ibr the design was
adapted from an original photo-
graph of an Italian setting.
For about five winters in a row,
Martha took private fiddle lessons
and then took part in music jams
with fellow retirees in Arizona.
"Oh! There's so many good musi-
cians down there," she says. "I love
the fiddling."
EVERY APRIL she looks for-
ward to attending the local Old-
Time Fiddlers' Fest, as well as a
similar festival in Sequim. Martha
and Gordon love music and used to
have a great time dancing togeth-
er.
Though she is still active as a
Page 14 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 27, 2007
member of the neighborhood birth-
day club, a regular pinochle player
and a frequent guest of the casi-
no, Martha's travels have slowed
down recently. On the up side, she
is glad to be spending Christmas
with her family for a change.
"It's kind of a quiet life, any-
more," she considers.
In honor of' her 90th birthday,
her friends and family from both
sides of the family joined tbrces to
host a birthday bash at the Lake-
Land Village Clubhouse, overlook-
ing the water. "It was just neat!"
she remembers fondly.
Her daughter Sharon is already
thinking about plans for Martha's
100th birthday party. "l say I can't
die, because I've got too much to
do," Martha says.
She shared two recipes. The
first is for a dish she recommends
for potlucks, because it makes
"plenty to go around."
Chinese Hash
Ingredients:
2 1/2 lb. ground beef
1 can mushroom soup
1 can chicken soup
1 C. uncooked rice
Bean sprouts, water chestnuts
and mushrooms to taste
1 C. celery
1 C. onion
1/4 C. soy sauce
2 C. water
Chinese noodles
Preparation:
Combine all the above ingredi-
ents except the Chinese noodles.
Bake uncovered at 350 degrees
Fahrenheit tbr 45 minutes. Then
add the Chinese noodles on top
and bake for an additional 15 min-
utes.
She also shared how to make
her favorite frosting:
Flour Icing
Ingredients:
5 Tbsp. flour
1 C. milk
1 C. sugar
1 C. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation:
Cook flour and milk together
until thick. Let cool. Cream to-
gether sugar, butter and vanilla.
Add them to the first mixture.
Beat together well until it reaches
the right consistency to spread
over a cake.
Ver 25 years ot
exhaust
Road in Shelton. All future 2008
meetings will return to the normal
schedule on the first Tuesday of
each month.
Membership dues for 2008 will
recent flooding. Intereste
are invited to bring their
inibrmation regarding tb
with them to the meeting.
N()minate someone for
annual chamber awardt00
Tis the season for chamber mere- ber Volunteer of the Year.I
bers to nominate people for annual Nominations must be t
awards. Shelton-Mason County to the chamber by J e
Chamber of Commerce newsletters Local service club presi o
contain ballots for nominations, administer the judging Till P
," " It
Categories include: Business of the will be honored at the
Year,lCitizen of the Year and cham- annual awards dinner in at
Sandy Branner
Owner
* 25 Years Experience J
(9 in Shelton & Mason County) 1 d
- E-filing ] :.
SANDY'S ]
BOOKKEEPING & TAX SER¥ ]
1065 St. Rte. 3 (by Tupper Floors} 427-3 II v
Fax: (360)427-31
NORTHWEST FLOWER
arden Show SHOW TICKETS $16
Durangos
Western work boots
Mustang sole
Women's and men's
Durango western boots
Hathorn
Western boots
custom made
:.#yi,
Rocky
by Georgia
IRONCLAD
Waterproof safety toe
Georgias
Women's safety toe boots
Western women's & men's
Georgia Giants
Waterproof Gore-Tex
Naot
Ladies'
ls
All sale items limited to stock on hand, Sale ends
"Your Workwear Headquarters"
SHELTON • 930 Johns Prairie Road. 417-426$
HOURS
Mon thru Fri * Sat 10-5 * Sun 11-4