These commodities would then be sent to schools to help feed kids during the latter years of the Great Depression.

Mom raised four children, and worked several jobs as an office manager, and later as a sales representative for an advertising specialty company, from which she eventually retired in her seventies.

Margaret has helped scores of young men and women learn the ropes and get established in businesses all over Lincoln, Nebraska. She was honored for outstanding achievements in the late 1980s as Woman of the Year by the American Businesswomen's Association.

She still lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has four grown children & their spouses, and four grandchildren. And she still continues to get around pretty well.

 

This is my Mother, Margaret C. Harm in a portrait taken around 1939.

Mom was born in 1920 in Republican City, Nebraska.

She was raised on my grandparents' farm, known as the Willow Springs Farm. Her mother died when she was four and she helped to raise her two older brothers and two younger sisters. Perhaps that is why she has spent her whole life helping others.

Mom graduated from high school in Republican City, Nebraska and later moved to Lincoln in the late 1930s. Mom attended Lincoln School of Commerce where she learned business and administrative skills that would serve her throughout her career.

Mom worked at the newly-opened Nebraska State Capitol Building in the Department of Surplus Commodities, where she would keep track of things such as surplus grain stores and other agricultural commodities.