| During her childhood, Rosalie Mason was involved in several experiences which taught her the importance of personal and family preparedness. She was born during the great depression. While she was still a young child, their family lost the grocery store they operated in Oklahoma. Lack of income made it necessary for the children to be divided among relatives in order to survive.
When the family was reunited, they made their way to San Bernadino, California in 1937. They were living in a motel near a river when heavy rains burst the dam above them. They fled for high ground, barely escaping with their lives, but witnessed the pandemonium of a severe flood that took hundreds of lives.
Rosalie graduated from high school in Chula Vista, married John Mason, and attended Southwestern College there, but had to withdraw when their five children were stricken with scarlet fever.
These and other experiences taught her the importance of being self-sufficient. Through most of her life she has raised her own garden, and has been engaged in food storage activities, quilting, making bread and soap, canning and drying food, etc.
The family moved to Everett, Washington in 1966 and then to Longview, Washington in 1975. In Washington she began demonstrating the preparedness techniques she had learned to clubs and church groups. She is working towards a degree in Nutrition from Brigham Young University.
Rosalie is a convert ot The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and has served in presidencies of the MIA, Primary, and Relief Society, as well as teaching classes in the various church auxiliaries. The first edition of this book was written when she and her husband were asked by local church leaders to serve as "Stake Home Production and Storage Specialitsts" and to write an instruction booklet on food storage and family preparedness for church members in her area.
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