Sunday evening --
June 17, 1979
Dearest Family --This has been a very different FATHER'S DAY today but a much better as Mary Virginia has much improved. She is now able to walk around the halls with help and can get to the bathroom on her own so is hoping that the doctor will say she can go home soon. They took out her IV's Wednesday and the rest of the tubes (catheter and drainage tube for blood) the next day and began to feed her more until now she is on a regular diet. She gets to choose the following days menu for herself so can't complain too much about the choice of food -- she eats real well most everything except vegetables like squash, spinach, carrots, etc.
Roberta went over this morning and stayed with Mary Virginia while Dad and I went to church at home and then took Grandma over and I stayed while the three of them went out for lunch. Dad stopped on the way back and picked some strawberries at Stokes'. They said they would still have some next week and the red raspberries will also be ready. Just finished stemming about three quarts and put some in the freezer for later and also had some to eat.
Glad to talk to you on the phone, Catherine but sorry to miss your call, Serena -- Roberta relayed the message. Wondered if you told the hospital when you called that it was long distance for someone got a call at the nurses' desk this evening. We were there from about 8:30 yesterday morning to almost that time last night with the exception of about a half hour when we ate in the hospital cafeteria. Dad said he heard the phone ring at home yesterday afternoon but by the time he got inside it had quit ringing.
Mary Virginia had so much company all earlier in the week when she wasn't really up to it and very little this weekend. She has received many bouquets of flowers including three beautiful ones of homegrown roses. Debbie Haines brought one in -- she works at the hospital from 11-7:30AM. She stopped one morning and got your address, Serena -- no, I think she got it from Grandma but we talked about you. I couldn't remember for sure how long your internship lasts but she wanted to stop and see you and thought it would be wonderful if you two could get jobs in the same place and share an apartment. No doubt she has written you that she is coming your way around the second week of July. She also said that No???e was wanting your address as she was going to be in Iowa.
The sad news of the family is that Cris and Marita have broken up and Cris feel that it is all his fault as he was putting in so much work after hours, etc. He felt sorry for someone who had been moved from Philadelphia and so invited him to dinner, etc. and this fellow and Marita soon fell in love. Cris is such a cine [fine?] fellow but seems to have bad luck with all his feminine relationships. Dad called him this evening and he said one big mistake he made was not staying in Europe when he had the chance so suggested that John not be in a big rush to get married but see some of the world. When Cris was with Cincinnati Milacron they wanted him to stay in Holland longer and also work in Germany but he turned it down to rush back here to be with Rainey (spelling).
The Hortons are planning to go to Marianne's over the Fourth of July and Cris is to be there the weekend before so Roberta and Grandma are now planning on seeing them too the same time -- not staying with the Kintners but in Lancaster and then going up into New England and to Quebec. They plan to leave here June 30. How does this fit in with your plans, John?
[Love, etc.]
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