![]() ![]() In her memoir A Girl from Yamhill, she writes proudly that her childhood home had the second bathtub in Yamhill County.Ģ8. A district representative said that when she agreed to the honour, she asked "if the school still smelled like a sawdust floor."Ģ7. Her former elementary school in Portland was renamed for her in 2008. In the second grade, Cleary fell in love with a boy named Johnny, and would chase him around the class during lunch period.¹Ģ6. The Clearys raised two children, twins born in 1955.Ģ5. ![]() Her Protestant parents did not approve of the match, as Clarence was Catholic.Ģ4. ![]() She met her husband, Clarence Cleary, at college.Ģ3. When she got in, she pledged " by hook or by crook" to attend school.Ģ2. When Cleary applied to college, she didn't expect to be accepted, and she didn't know how she'd be able to afford tuition if she was. ![]()
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