Vera Claudene (Simpson) Richardson of Greeley, Colorado United States was born on September 1, 1932 in Cloud Chief, Washita County, OK, and had siblings Jan Squire and Neil Burton Simpson. She was married to Ples Jefferson "PJ" Richardson Jr. on August 28, 1947 in Visalia, Tulare County, California, and they were together until Ples' death on January 7, 1983 in Lompoc, Santa Barbara County. She had children James David Richardson, Michael Duane Richardson, Claudia Diane Richardson, Linda Darlene (Richardson) Dolan, and Susan Denise Richardson. Vera Richardson died at age 89 years old on June 23, 2022 in Greeley, CO.
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...