Patricia Ann LeForce

My name is Patricia Ann LeForce. My maiden name is Huskamp. I grew up right across the river in what used to be called Lookout Height—it's now Fort Wright, Kentucky. I married my husband nine years ago, and I moved to his little house next to the farm and couldn't be happier.
My deceased husband's family is still in Perry County, in Hazard. I wish I was still close to them, but it isn't so right now. But anyhow, every holiday, whether it be Christmas, Easter, 4th of July, Memorial Day, birthdays, Labor Day, all of them, they always get together to have a party, and the family gets together at one house and it's usually at Karen Jo, which is the aunt now, because she's the last of the family that's left. Everybody else has been deceased. So they all party at her house and she supplies most of the food, but they all bring a dish. And to me, that's what family means. And it's gone such to the wayside. I wish up here in Cincinnati and around this area that was more prominent with all families, because my family is not that way.

It didn't matter if you didn't have a present to bring. It didn't matter. It was the fact that you were there. Now, my husband had a saying, if you didn't like your cousin very well and you actually hated him, but during that day you had to love him because it was your cousin. But after he left, all bets were off.