Dear Lorna & Myron;
No, This is not for Christmas ! But for something I've been trying to get at for a LONG time. Sending you excerpts from my Mother's letters to my sister, Janet, in New York.
These excerpts are about the then current doings of Mother's aunt Ida, your great grandmother, Lorna ??? I haven't the family chart in front of me.
Leading to this was the recent death of Janet last May, age 91. She had a severe stroke and demanded (by printing that extra efforts not be made to extend her life. We agreed and she survived about a week or so. Ashes taken back to Rochester [Minnesota] where she is by my Kit.
She had boxes of Mother's letters (hundreds) and I took several to peruse from the early '40's to the '70's. Thus I've seen the "Ida" references. And there may be even more that I haven't discovered.
So, here they are:
Sept. 14, 1941:
"I wonder if I wrote that I had received a letter from Aunt Ida -- she is somewhat better -- gets her own meals. Her son, Harry, stays there nights and his wife comes each day to clean up the house, so she gets along. She is 85. Her grandmother lived to be that old."
Jan. 3, 1942:
"I received a letter from my step-mother (Lucinda - 'Cindy" - Greene, Lorna) and she had heard that my Aunt Ida has had to move from her little house in Burbank because it is so near the Lockheed plant. Of course, she will be paid for it, but it must be a great hardship for her to move, as she is a semi-invalid anyway. Some distant relative (who, Lorna??) had invited her to her home."
Feb. 24, 1942:
"I had a letter from my Aunt Ida. She has not left her house and does not intend to. Is feeling fairly well and manages to take care of herself. She wrote with a pen and her penmanship is marvelous for a woman 86 yeas old -- not much different than it has ever been."
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