Leah was born at the beginning of the Flapper era.
A time of excitement and great times.
In the June 1922 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, G. Stanley Hall described looking in a dictionary to discover what the evasive term "flapper" meant:
[T]he dictionary set me right by defining the word as a fledgling, yet in the nest, and vainly attempting to fly while its wings have only pinfeathers; and I recognized that the genius of 'slanguage' had made the squab the symbol of budding girlhood.(1)
Leah was the first girl born in her large family of 10 sibblings. Before Leah was born, her parents first born child, Delma Augusta died at birth. and a brother, Lloyd Martin Guthrie died when he was 15 months old.
Her father, Lee was a farmer, and a contractor in Frontier County, Nebraska. When Leah was only 3 years old her family moved to Indianola, Nebraska where her father did contracting work, and became engaged in well and pump drilling work.
As a young girl Leah enjoyed spending weekends at her grandparent's farm. Her favorite story book was "Bambi" and her favorite Christmas present was a large doll with a pink dress.
