![]() “We had a lot of spirit back then,” she said. Name suggests was the group who led the fans in fight songs, while the cheerleaders led them in cheers. “The school was so overcrowded that my eighth grade class had to move over to the Valley Methodist church,” she said recently, “ the next year North Pines was finished and we were the first graduating class.” The year was 1950.įrom there she went to Central Valley where she became a songleader, which as the When she was in third grade they moved to the big city ofSpokane and she went to Opportunity Grade School at Pines and Sprague. Her young parents lived in a poor rural Arkansas community and soon moved to the Northwest, when she was three, where her father worked the logging camps of Idaho. It seems somehow fitting that Mom, a future homebuilder was actually born in the back bedroom of a small but sturdy two-room house. For 38 years Mom has been a woman among men, surviving through good times and bad as a general contractor, building hundreds of homes throughout the Valley. While those who know Don Swanson might call that an incredible achievement, Mom’s noteworthy accomplishment is really having done what a lot of men only dreamt about or tried and failed at. My mom, Bobbie Jean Swanson, is not unlike most women because she was a good mother, or a standout because she has lived in the Valley since 1945 and remains married to Dad, her high school sweetheart,Īfter 54 years. I write the stories of interesting Valley folk and since this is the month in which Mother’s Day occurs, it dawned on me to share the unique story of a Valley person who happens to be a mother, my mother actually. Opening Business in Spokane Valley (36). ![]() Best Places to eat in Spokane Valley (14).Visit a gallery of homes we have built in the Spokane Valley.
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