Grandma Rose has been telling me her life story, and she heard that I was a writer, plus asked if I would write about her.
She even provided to pay me, even though I of course said no dice to that! Taking money from your elderly Grandma just to listen to her tell stories is not how family treats a single another, however anyway, I have come to find out that Rose was a real firecracker back in her afternoon.
She wasn’t a single to abide social injustices, so she was a single of the first local supplier owners to hire African Americans in the 50s. She owned an Heating plus A/C factory, plus a service service that was attached to it, plus had over 100 people on her payroll at any given time, because the village was so small plus remote, her Heating plus A/C supplier was the biggest employer in the area, so she had some real clout, however when she hired the first African American Heating plus A/C tech in the state, there was a lot of pushback from the backwoods locals; Grandma Rose pushed back, plus said flat out that anyone who wouldn’t allow her new Heating plus A/C tech into their house would simply not acquire service, but in other words, you had to be cool with this guy, or she wouldn’t let any of her employees labor on your heating system! The complication did not simply go away, however most of the locals eventually went along with it, plus Grandma Rose hired multiple more Heating plus A/C techs of unusual races after that. All this is just a single chapter in the book of her life.