Ellie Walburn told about the life and writings of Erma Bombeck, a housewife turned beloved, nationally known humorist, at Mondays Iola Unity Club meeting.
Erma first began focusing a critical eye on the American family back when June Cleaver, not Roseanne, was the accepted model for middle-class motherhood, Walburn said.
For more than three decades, she charmed a nation with her sassy irreverence for long-held traditions, tempered by delightful good humor and always deep, abiding love.
Until Ermas untimely death in 1996, she was forever growing and learning, Walburn said, and sharing what she learned as wife and mother. As a master of insight and rib-tickling wisdom, she showed us the outrageous side of everyday life.
There will never be another quite like Erma, Walburn concluded.
Erma Bombeck: A Life in Humor, by Susan Edwards, is Erma remembered as she would have wanted, Walburn said. She authored numerous newspaper columns and 11 books, including At Wits End, The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? and When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, Its Time to Go Home.
Charyl Link hosted 16 members at her home for the meeting.
The club received correspondence from Daniel Kays, director of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, for Unitys Women of the Bible performance, noting the groups poise and professionalism.
