Sunday evening
October 28, 1979
Dearest Family -- It was nice hearing from all of you either by phone or letter or both . . . .
Sorry that I got this letter started on the wrong side of the carbon but hopefully all is okay now - at least I didn't wait until I got to the bottom of the letter before finding it out. It was good talking or hearing by letter from all of you / or both in some cases.
Sorry that Gerry has to be hospitalized but hope that puts an end to all the misery he has been having with his back and legs and that the surgery will be most successful if that is necessary. We will be anxious to hear the results of the milogram. I would love to be out there to help in any small way that I could -- especially with Wendy if nothing else.
Do worry about you too Roberta and all the bee stings that you have been having so do keep the kit with you at all times. Are there so many bees around the campus or is there something in your chemistry that readily attracts them?
Just wanted to tell you, Serena that we picked up Dad's coat and my watch at Haines house yesterday which you so thoughtfully sent home with Mrs. Haines. I didn't talk to her but Mary Virginia did ever so briefly. I had to take MV over to Denise Stewart's house to practice as she and Tim Larrick were singing in the Lees Creek United Church of Christ this morning. They did very well - the interim minister said that it was the first time he had heard "folk music" sung in that church and really appreciated it. He also closed his sermon with a song "Ten Thousand Angels" which he thought fit in well with his message and especially well with the other songs - Dallas Holm's Calvary and Mary's Song. As we pulled into the parking lot we tapped the car beside us - not hurting it at all but I know that they knew it happened as they were still sitting in the car yet. Not recognizing them we spoke and introduced ourselves and learned that it was the new minister and his wife who begin their ministry there next Sunday - Robert Fishers who are now living in Sardinia. They were having a pot luck dinner after church so we came back to New Vienna, picked up Grandma at church and went to the Windmill and had dinner. Mary Virginia had been invited to go to Fort Ancient with the Melvin MYF group. So we visited people in Wilmington until it was time to pick her up afterwards so had a full day. By the way Darrell Hunter was going to church (Lees Creek) for the first time since his illness. And he spoke so highly of you Roberta - how you had stopped by so often and cheered him up in your visits there last June.
Last night was the Hallowe'en carnival at the school which was a busy place. We had supper there and after the parade and judging took Grandma home and then to the Haunted Hall (IOOF building) where the Sr. MYF were holding forth (instead of the church where they have been having decorated the last couple of years. Carol Wise asked us if we would take Lori as she didn't want to take the twins. She was really petrified so I didn't see much myself. Ann Wolfrom took her back up to show her some of them asa they looked without their masks - which made her feel a little better. Mary Virginia really had a weird get-up on. Ann Wolfrom had made an over-the-head mask out of papier mache' and no one could guess who she was. I had never been all through those rooms upstairs over Ginny's Restaurant until last week. It was nice that they didn't have to work half the night cleaning up afterwards as they had to do before in order to get the church ready for services on Sunday morning. They made around $300 in just two evenings of being open.
Sorry if we upset your plans, Carol and John. We had no idea that you were planning on coming on Saturday instead of Wednesday and Thursday. We haven't asked the Bains but have been wondering if they might like to come for Thanksgiving too - that is if you will also be here. Her aunt Eleanor would also be welcome. The only person we have invited is Mrs. Matthews. Neither of the McCoys are able to come. Did we tell you that they are now right next to Mrs. Matthews at Extended Care? Mrs. McCoy doesn't seem to know anyone or say anything which is hard on him. He has also failed quite a bit just in the last month. To backtrack to Thanksgiving - we would like to have you come and be here Thanksgiving with us and later in the weekend too if that is possible. We had thought we'd combine taking Grandma to the Cincinnati airport and then going on to see Serena but that may be too much as Mrs. Pauline Simkins is also planning on going to Florida at the same time. So perhaps they would leave later in the next week. Do let us hear though what your definite plans are and hope that we haven't upset them too much.
Dad and Harold Thornburg spoke at the last New Vienna Republican Women's Club Meeting last Tuesday night when I had the program and had been asked to have them speak on the office of central committeemen. We didn't get to go square dancing but hope to go back this next week. We had thought that the Hortons would be here and that we would miss this one too but guess that they won't be arriving until Wednesday or Thursday. Then Aunt Mary mentioned on her card to Dad that they have to be back in Lake Worth Sunday PM so guess that they will be leaving Saturday at the latest.
Thank you all for your birthday greetings, as someone remarked it's a lot better to have birthdays than to consider the alternative. The last Saturday of the month the men have a prayer breakfast at the Church, then in the afternoon did get the yard cleaned up. That is more relaxing that going to Atlanta and back in one day and hearing how our competitors are selling things cheaper than us, but that story is as old as the hills.
Carol and John -- how did your leaf raking go yesterday? We suppose that Granville has leaf pick up. The politicians were busy in NV Saturday putting up signs all over town . . .Vote for Jim Curits OR Vote for Larry Akers for Mayor. The Akers forces even had some fans sporting badges at the Carnival. There are an awful lot of signs -- political that is, in Wilmington.
Mary Virginia has met all the Stewart family now and said that Debbie would like to have Serena's address which she keeps forgetting to give to her. MV couldn't realize that there is another family with a bigger age spread than her own. Dennis Stewart is 32 and is basketball coach at Circleville.
Poor Dad didn't really have a birthday dinner at all. He had requested "thickened milk" which we had for lunch yesterday and I had thought that we would have his celebration today but with MV gone and only three of us he suggested that we eat out so he didn't have to twist my arm too far for that.
Not sure of the details, but Larry Martin was chopping some wood recently and the wedge flew out and hit his leg and he has been laid up since. Today was the "Run" sponsored by the Y. The Clinton Co. Bank had 15 entrants, including two from the NV office . . . they all had the pro shirts with their name too -- real class.
We didn't see him today but while at Quaker Apts. we asked about Leroy Atchinson (of old News-Journal fame) -- and they said he was fine. Sixty Minutes had an interesting skit on the bulk of the Sunday paper and the value of all those ads . . . the Cincinnati Enquirer was one paper that they took apart -- ahh, what memories . . . of those newspaper days.
Elizabeth Johnson moved last Thursday to Wilmington -- 756 Xenia Ave. --just two houses from her sister.
[Love, etc.]
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