Ruth Hveem Kronmiller, aged 95 years and 7 months,
peacefully left this life on June 12, 2010.
She was a daughter of farmers from Norway who settled in the
Upper Missouri region of northeast Montana.
The challenges of the High Plains were well known to her.
All who grow up on the farms and ranches of the plains are familiar
with the crushing tedium of women's lives--sisters, daughters, mothers, grandmothers.
Women were heroic through their endurance alone.
Mom was a great organic gardener. My tomatoes will never match hers.
My thumb is not yet so green.
One of Mom's favorite lines was written by Jill Ker Conway in her Australian memoir,
"The Road to Coorain:"
"When my end comes--wherever I am, my dust will mingle with the red dust of the western plains.
It will blow about and get in people's eyes--and I'll be content with that."
Mother, rest in peace.
With thanksgiving for many years with her,
Kitchen Garden Cook
Photos are her favorite flowers--iris, peony, flax
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