'This Is Your Life' ... Erma Barnett

Aunt Erma's Home-Made Noodles

NOTE: “This Is Your Life” was a 30-minute reality television series from 1950 to 1987. The program's premise was to surprise guests and take them through their lives in front of an audience.

The below one was not broadcast on television. Still, it was arranged for a live audience, primarily students of a long-time popular teacher in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on June 2, 1972.

That woman was my maternal aunt, Erma Barnett, the third sister of the six Barnett sisters (my mother was the last one.)

Toastmaster Raymond G. Musgrave read the “book of her life while Faith Gorrell (my mother) smiled at her older sister, Erma.

Erma as a little girl. Unknown date

Erma was in the first picture. Natalie Waugh provided it for the “Point Pleasant WV History” Facebook Page.

Old North Point Pleasant Elementary School - photo in the “Point Pleasant WV History” Facebook Page.

Erma Pearl Barnett, 86, died Monday, June 10, 1996, at Pinecrest Care Center, Gallipolis, following a long illness.

Thanks to the Point Pleasant Register newspaper for writing the above story.

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Aunt Erma's Home-Made Egg Noodles

(Other Barnett sisters had memorized without looking at a written recipe, so my daughter, then as a pre-teen, wrote it down.)

Aunt Erma's Home-Made Noodles

• 1 egg

• Pinch of salt

• Pinch of baking powder in flour

• Half of an eggshell full of water

• 1 1/2 or 2 cups of flour

Procedure

• Roll very thin

• Roll into a log-shaped, cut small

• Open the noodles and place them on a cookie pan with wax paper on them

• Let it sit and dry for an hour or longer.