Smith Family - Laton Smith - Extraneous Thoughts about the Tripletts - page 3

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(Spread out the typing) Mother didn't drive so quite often it was my duty -- not reluctantly -- to come to the place, pick up Mother and three or four of the girls ( all thin back then so the '28 Packard held 'em). Took Mother home first -- naturally --, then the girls. But not necessarily in order of closest-to-home.

          I seemed to get lost a little bit in dropping them off. The result being a certain girl would be take home last. Before she departed I'd ask for details of the meeting and anything else for chit-chat. And this is Methodist Gospel truth; from about '22 to '35 (when she left Rochester) Mary was one of the "last home" and in '36 was succeeded by Kit, just arrived from South Dakota. I figured all of this was Home Missionary research.

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          We arrived here in Mid-May and pitched into flower and vegetable gardening, sprucing up the place here and there and renewed church and contacts with close friends. Oh, marked my 82nd  year in June. As you may recall, daughter Marcia and husband Don MacKinnon, live just nine miles away in Port Dover right on Lake Erie. We're six miles inland.

          Son Donn and wife Nancy came down from Ottawa/ home-in-Quebec for my birthday and later for Don MacKinnon's birthday bash (clans of Scotch relatives arrived from parts of Canada), then we drove to Donn's home in Quebec near Ottawa in late September for the blazing leaf displays in the Gatineau Hills. Where Kit and I roamed during the dozen years we were in Ottawa. So, it was nice to have those in-family meetings. Also, last winter Donn and Nancy came south see us.

          Marcia is still deep into computer genealogy and having finished a nice publication on her mother's more-or-less Norwegian family (Hommedal), she's far into a "Smith version she things may run 300 pages with text and a myriad of pictures. I hope I'm still around to see it!

          Well, Lorna, I guess you are the "Gore" as all women are while Myron is for "Bush" because chances are Bush plays golf. I'm right on, right?[!-no my parents were both died in the wool Republicans.] The Canadian government declared a national election last week and it will be voted on November 27th. Why can't Canada have the American fun of a year and a half of campaigning??0

          All the best to you, 

Your humble "cousin",    Laton

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