“We were 11 and 8 and we were left with nothing but the clothes we were wearing- pajamas and coats- not good coats just regular old ones. But people gave to us- they were so generous- and that is why we give back,” said Sister Norah Foley, now 84, as she delivered gorgeous hand-made hats, scarves and baby blankets for the children of Family Life Education.
Sister Norah Foley and her sister Rosemary McCloud lived in Clydebank, Scotland, a little town, but one in which ships were built. For two nights in 1941,
Clydebank was bombed relentlessly, with breadbasket bombs that would hit and detonate more than once. They knew they had to get out of their house when there was an explosion and all the doors were blown off. So, they fled to the nearby school which was an air raid shelter. Unfortunately, the school was also hit and Sister Norah, her mother and grandmother were buried until her father dug them out.
Their aunt in Detroit, Michigan organized a collection and the Foleys received boxes of clothing. Beautiful clothes and buried in the middle of one box, a lovely doll that a little American girl had donated for these Scottish girls who had lost everything.
“We love knitting- didn’t our mother bring us up right?”
Yes, Sister, in more ways than one. Thank you so much!
