A 75-year Friendship

And the beneficiaries

Jane Tanner and my mother Lorene

When my mother was fourteen years old, her parents arranged for her to board with a family in Ekalaka, Montana, which was sixty miles from their ranch. The family that they boarded with lived in a tiny two-bedroom house, but they actually had three boarders that year, one of whom, Jane Hunter, was another girl whose paren…