Marilee Cargill has always loved using her imagination to create artwork. The 86-year-old Crawford woman still stays busy being creative using rocks of various sizes to make animals, yard decorations, door stops and many other items. She has many of her projects displayed at her house, but what she really enjoys is giving away her artwork to bring joy to other people.
JEFF FIELDER Editor
CRAWFORD – Growing up on a farm near Elsie, Nebraska, Marilee Cargill and her two brothers knew that if they wanted to have toys, they would have to make them themselves.
“We weren’t an affluent family, so we had to be creative in order to have things we wanted,” said Cargill, 86, who lives in Crawford.
Cargill didn’t mind that, for she loved being creative.
“My folks had a little scroll saw that I used as a teenager. I made crosses, yard decorations, things for inside the house – just anything you could imagine,” she said.
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