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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
If Edna Mills had business cards printed to list all the many things she does, they’d have to be a foot long. As wife and mother, she’s authorized to include 1001 domestic tasks that leave her home gleaming. After raising three sons, she has legitimate claim on amateur waitresscook-chauffeur-laundress
status and like most country ladies, she can add gardening and canning to his list of accomplishments.
Edna could fill a business card with her home responsibilities alone but the hours she spends minding the home store have to be squeezed in between the time she devotes to minding the store next door. And when she isn't standing behind the cash register, she’s tacking red velvet on a loveseat or scraping layers of paint off a chest of drawers in her upholstering and refinishing business.
For 25 years, Edna and James P. Mills have operated their country store at Estes, a little community stuck back on Route 729 near the Culpeper County line.
‘‘That’s too long," Edna chuckled, beaming the wide smile she flashes to visitors and neighbors alike. “No, it’s really all in what you get used to. I’m used to it. I like it. I like working with furniture and I like keeping store."
Formerly Edna Cloud, she was born and raised in the county, growing up between the old Forest Grove school and the Forest Grove Baptist Church.
"I used to walk across the fields to school,” she recalled, adding that her entire educational career took place in that old neighborhood school. “I was there some days when the teachers couldn’t get to school because the snow was too deep for their horses.”
Back then, there was a livery stable at the crossroads where the teachers kept their mounts. "Miss Ida Brown
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