Mona Lee Brock with Willie Nelson. Mona Lee Brock is credited with keeping hundreds of farms from being liquidated and with saving an untold number of lives. By the time farmers reached Mrs. Brock and a handful of other informal counselors on the phone, they were desperate. “You can imagine the humiliation and the shame and the guilt and the denial,” Mrs. Brock said in 1988. Mrs. Brock became a friend of Nelson, who has helped raise more than $50 million for family farmers through Farm Aid.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2019 21:56 UTC