Countdown to Mother’s Day: ‘Diamond Bea’ Knopf—Big, Bawdy, and Bodacious
By Ellen Sue Spicer-Jacobson
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Bea was a card sharp. That’s how I think she earned the nickname “Diamond Bea.” She beat the boots off whomever she played with, of whatever economic level. Or maybe her efforts toward improving my dad got her the nickname: She often said my father was a diamond-in-the-rough and she had polished him.