Memory Lane - My Siblings by Mary Alice (Puckett) Null, Hoskins February 5, 1988 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe/letters_copple_myers.html Laura Viola Puckett (see photo on link above)Laura 'Viola' worked as a telephone operator in Elgin, Kansas before she got married. She met and married Lee Howe of Hewins. They lived in Elgin, Hewins, and someplace in Missouri, coming back to Hewins when Kenneth Lee was small. The lived in Sedan awhile and then back to Hewins. Vi bought the franchise for the Telephone office at Hewins. She washed on board for her family and other people. It was �Hard Times� in the 1930�s Laura and Lee Howe 1941 Pioneer's Edition of the Sedan Times StarShe loved to go to dances on Saturday nite and did when she could. She was always busy, crocheting or embroidering-sewing etc. She was a very hard worker. After they moved to Kingsley Kansas in 1950 she worked at caf��s as a waitress. She still crocheted and sewed for other people. She died at age 73 years old.