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By: Rebecca Phillips

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 17, 2026

Words: 749

Last Updated: 1 day, 3 hours ago

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My great-grandma Nonna Bailey, my grandma’s mother, had to quit school in the eighth grade to help her family so they could survive. She knew how to cook like no one else, she could sew anything, and then there was something my mom and dad noticed when they first got married and visited her: She would read the newspaper and knew everything and anything going on.

She was a Bailey — of Irish descent — …

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