Florentine Bowar Schlimgen was born and raised on a farm in southeast-central South Dakota. She was the first of 8 children born to her second-generation German-immigrant parents and lived in a farming community for most of her life, only 7 miles from where she was born. She was 15 years old when the great depression hit, and a young wife and mother during some of South Dakota's most difficult economic times. These events, along with her deep Roman...
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