Friday, while hanging out the family wash, she was suddenly confronted by what neighbors and her husband later identified as a rattlesnake. Unhesitatingly, she snatched up a baseball bat lying nearby and clubbed the reptile unconscious with a single blow to its head.
The 58-year old woman then stuffed it into a bucket, clapped a cover on it and went ahead with her chores.
When her husband Walter returned home from his job in an East Chicago factory, he destroyed the three-foot snake, transferred it to a jar, and deposited it in the freezer, as a souvenir to show their grandchildren.
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