April 5, 1963
Friday. Cold and clear, windy 32 hi. Clifton did work on wall behind the stove. I papered most of the living room. Went to business meeting at church at night. Billie called again and said Aunt Pearl had a cerebral hemorrhage and was real bad. Mother called later and she was doing their living room.
Comment: Aunt Pearl Laraway was Grandma Bessie's and Billie's sister, born September 22, 1884 in the town of Bern and died, apparently from the stroke, on June 27, 1963 or, about a month and a half after this post. She was about 79 years old and had lived through the Spanish Flu Pandemic of the early 1920's as relatively young adult in her mid thirties. I remember her as always richly dressed and coiffed with lots of perfume. I think she might have been pretty well-to-do. I do not remember any of her family.
Dad, Mom and Bessie are apparently deep in the throes of "spring cleaning" which seemed to happen just about every year as the nice weather rejuvenated their spirits.
Dad, Mom and Bessie are apparently deep in the throes of "spring cleaning" which seemed to happen just about every year as the nice weather rejuvenated their spirits.
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