In another life, she was "child labour", carrying buckets of wet cement endless stairs up on construction projects in his native Thailand.
In this life, she is preparing to move to Colorado where his daughter is nearing graduation from the University of Colorado.
One other thing.
Most of you know Lee Pruett. She hid behind a smile larger than life has been greeting you at the door to Lenlock Walmart for the past five years or so.
Currently, she is coasting in holiday time toward retirement official February 1. Colorado is the other side of that before the end of the year.
Is between "back then" and now that she lived a life that makes it difficult times look like marshmallows roasted.
At the beginning ...
"My mother very average. When my father die, she sold me, said she couldn't feed me. Once a month she will get $ 1.50 from the man she sold me. ..
"Once a year, we leave half a day for Chinese new year. Since I've been watching my mother, and she wants to know why I came. Told him I want to see her, but she said ' you have to go back. Unable to feed you. '
"Unable to get that off my mind."
After escaping child labour when the man she had been sold to died, a young Lee survived, making anything that she could find — maintenance of the House, washing and ironing, Cook. At one point, she made the sum of 25 cents per week ...
"I did everything that came along ... I care for my brother and sister ... it was difficult, but I'm older and it was my responsibility. "
Keeping House open a door, albeit a small one, for a better life. What she did was to marry a soldier who was paying to keep the House. His name was Thomas Geiald.
The marriage lasted a little over a year.
"I met in Hawaii in November 1968 for our first anniversary ... We had a week. I never saw him again. On November 27, two weeks later, the army notified me that he was missing ... in Viet Nam. "
There was another marriage, a gift for a George Pruett.
One had a nice race, but ...
"When he died of cancer, had been married 27 years, six months, 15 days, eight hours and 15 minutes. He had been in the air force. He died 19 October 2000 ".
Currently, George and Lee had resolved in Etowah County, near Moody, country of origin for her husband ... and their parents.
"They were wonderful people, but for three weeks when we came home, his father doesn't like me. If I was in the room, he would go to another room.
"But then he likes me. He taught me to drive tractor, as plough Garden, teach me many things. And when he quit, he always ask if I want to go with it.
"They always be my mother and my father ... they treat me so good after three weeks ... it's a wonderful story."
People of Walmart greeting has been good times for Lee Pruett.
"I love people, young children who come from there and give me hug. They just make my life, and just can't describe how I feel when I go to work. It just makes my day.
"I have photos of young children, his parents gave me, and I put them on the wall in my house, whole wall. I know that many names, but I call them "my baby."... some taller than me. "
Always the smile ...
"They make other people feel good ... I had hard, but I'm very blessed. God give me something that can wait every day. Even though I have hard, I can look around and see someone who was worse than I do. "
The daughter she is moving to be close, Anna, is from the Philippines. She was adopted by Lee and George when only 3 months old.
"She 27 and she beautiful ... calls all the time ... "Momma, you have to come, you have to come."... and I'll be near base (military), easier for me to use the facilities. "
What else?
That gets one of these broad smiles that Lee can retain the patent.
"God will let me know that my life should be ..."
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