Cloudy. We went to Stamford to Carl's and on to Cobleskill and did some shopping. Girls went to ball game at Middleburgh. Lyle and Madelyn went to prayer meeting with me.
Comment: Lyle and Madelyn Blakesley were good neighbors and pretty good friends. We used to get eggs from them most of the time because we did not usually have egg layers on our farm. Lyle was all hobbled up from old injuries and probably arthritis and had a pretty severe limp. Like all the small farmers up there, they were very hard workers and about the only time I remember seeing them is in their barns or outside. Lyle was an uncle to Rudy Blakesley who married my dad's sister, Winifred. Her name was really Margery Winifred but everybody called her "Winnie" or "Winifred. Aunt Winifred used middle names to commemorate her loved relatives. She named her last child Randolph Lyle. She named her daughter (Beth) Elizabeth Agnes (her mother's name) and first son Rudolph Earle after husband and brother. We always called him Rudy Earl and still do.
Lyle and Madelyn at their fiftieth wedding anniversary...
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