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I<\/strong>N A waiting room filled with patients and their families at Nashville\u2019s Sarah Cannon Center, a cancer center named for Minnie Pearl, Miriam Carrick did what she\u2019s always done. She\u2019s not one to mind waiting, happy to busy her hands with her knitting. Her husband, Haskell, waited his turn for treatment as she cast on and cast off with little thought or glance at the stitches that formed the dishcloth underway. But her work caught the attention of the center\u2019s employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe nurses said, \u2018Oh, look, she knits! Let\u2019s get her. We want to learn to make caps for our patients that lose their hair.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Well, give me a copy of your pattern; run me off one,\u2019\u201d said Carrick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a copy of their pattern in hand, Carrick\u2019s mission to further the program began. But where did her love of knitting begin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She could barely see over the counter at the dry goods store where the clerk carefully wrapped her family\u2019s purchases and tied\u00a0them with string. It wasn\u2019t the items inside the brown paper she eagerly anticipated but the string around it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An only child, she was no stranger to the hard work associated with life on the family\u2019s Normandy farm. But when time permitted, Carrick\u2019s mother and grandmother were needleworkers, busy knitting, crocheting, and tatting. When she was 8 years old, her grandmother took the ball of string and taught her to knit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMy family was a string saver. My grandmother saved the string, and she wrapped it in a ball. There were no close neighbors who had children for me to play with, so my grandmother taught me how to knit using the string that she had saved from the packages,\u201d said Carrick. \u201cGrandmother had knit socks for the boys in the service, and we made a little blue sock with white heels. So, without any pattern and with little bitty needles about the size of baling wire, I learned how to knit, and from then on, I knitted up every piece of string I could find for my doll clothes, and I just continued to like to knit.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For nine decades, she knitted. She knitted when the family moved from Bedford County to Oklahoma when she was in high school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s where she met her first husband, David Nelson, at Sunday school, and where their daughters, Donna and Wilma, were born. She knitted when they moved back to the family farm in Bedford County because David offered to run it for her father after her grandmother passed away. And when it was time to leave farming behind and move to town, after she decided she\u2019d work to put her girls through college, she knitted in any spare time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After farming, David worked for Castner Knott\u2019s and the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Carrick worked first for Bob Roberts Plumbing and Electric, then at Model Sportswear (formerly Model Matt), where she started as an order filler before moving to the ticket office and finally to engineering clerk. Carrick conducted time studies on the piecework in order to maximize efficiency. Model Sportswear was later sold to Stahl-Urban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her husband, David, passed away, and she was a widow for five years until a quick stop for bananas changed things. \u201cI met Haskell when I stopped at Cook\u2019s Market and asked for green bananas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said to me, \u2018Does your husband like green bananas?\u2019 I said, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t have one. But I like green bananas.\u2019 And, of course, one thing led to another; we got to talking, and he asked me to go to the movie with him. Of course, we went together a good little bit, and then we decided to make it permanent. I had him for 33 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being diagnosed with cancer himself, Haskell asked her to knit a cap for his niece, Donna King, who was undergoing treatments and had lost her hair. With a pattern and yarn from Frances Farrar at The Knit Kit, Carrick knit the unique hat resembling hair, and Haskell delivered it with love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, it was Haskell\u2019s cancer that led them to Sarah Cannon\u2019s waiting room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Haskell went for treatments or Carrick drove a neighbor to Nashville doctor appointments, Carrick dropped off hats in increments of 50 at Sarah Cannon. Later, when she stopped driving in Nashville, her daughter, Donna, delivered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done 2,555 so far: 2,525 to Sarah Cannon and the other 30 to family and friends,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what\u2019s the key to such a long life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSomebody asked me [that], and I said it\u2019s not because I was raised with a silver spoon. I was raised on a farm, and that\u2019s hard work. And that\u2019s it; I worked hard all my life,\u201d said Carrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a good life knit together with love and hard work from a family of string savers. GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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