In the Garden with Mama

By: Nancy Davis

Narrated by: Valerie Gilbert

In the fall of 1952, a courageous 18-year-old Roberta boarded a Greyhound bus in Missouri to start her new adventure to train as a nurse in Oklahoma. While in training, she falls in love with and marries a World War II soldier. The new couple moves to his cotton farm in rural Oklahoma and starts their life as a family. As the story develops, it proves how Roberta-Mama's early years in Missouri influenced her Oklahoma life and how it helped bond her family together.

©2024 Nancy J Davis (P)2025 Nancy J Davis

In the Garden with Mama, a book about the life of a woman named Roberta

This book is story of the life and times of a kind, loving compassionate woman who was from a large family growing up, who became a nurse and was widowed early, she raised her children mostly on her own, it tells some of the stories of her children’s lives and how she made an impact on them and their life choices, it is an easy but sentimental read written by her daughter.