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Mildred Brakey was born in 1922 to Sarah "Sally" Basford Gillespie (1901-1981) and Benjamin Glen Brakey (1895-1982). She was born in a blizzard between Marvel and Kline in Colorado. Mildred and her younger brother Bud grew up in several western Colorado communities, including Red Mesa, Naturita, Blanding and Durango. Mildred graduated from highschool in 1940 and in 1943, she moved to California where she worked in an airplane assembly plant. After moving back to Blanding for a short time, Mildred went to Salt Lake City to find work. She found work in Ogden, Utah where she met Ed Hensley; they married in Califorinia in 1945. In 1946, they had Barbara and moved to Kentucky. By the end of 1950, they were a family of six and in 1958, they became seven. In 1972, Mildred and Ed retired and moved to Texas and to Corbin, Virginia in 1975.