Saturday, January 01, 2011

January 1, 1963: The Frances Hubbard Diaries

January 1, 1963
Tues Cloudy very cold 2 above.  Windy very light snow flurries Earl and Bob (Segeritz) were here for dinner.  Mother called in the afternoon.  Water pipes above kitchen broke.  LaVerne and Roberta here for supper.  Wayne was at mothers (in Richmondville)  in the P.M.  Gerald came home from Mary Ann’s.


Comment:  Earl married late in life to Lillian Segeritz who had a son, Bob. 
 From LaVerne:  After they married Earl did renovation work on the house she owned, fireplace etc. Lillian owned horses, Bob, Lillian's son and Earl cared for them, Earl was injured, broken foot I think, by one of them. He was laid up for some time.
Lillian and her first husband had Harley motorcycles, they would ride over cross road to Otis's and turn around.
"Water pipes above the kitchen broke." The phrase belies the hassle that frozen water pipes and even frozen fuel lines to the oil burner in the living room entailed.  This meant  a lot of work in freezing cold to get the pipes thawed and the water and fuel flowing.

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