Things were a little simpler when Mary Lentz, 90, and her sister, Rosalie Kunkel, 88, were growing up during the Depression Era in Sparenberg.Christmas was a lot simpler, too.“It’s just a different world,” Lentz said. “It was just a happy time.”The siblings never got a Christmas stocking – at least as far as they can remember – and they never wrote Santa a letter. There was always a decorated tree, but they don’t know where it came from. They do know that it wasn’t a live tree because there weren’t any to cut down.Their home had no running water or ...