(1951 July 2)
I wore my pink shortie coat in church today. Auxiliary officers were installed in a ceremony and we went up front. A woman behind me from Mazo[manie] almost had me giggling during prayers. Every time it was up to her to say "Amen," she would let out a groan - "through Jesus Christ our Lord" - "Ummmmah" - "through JC our L" - "Ummmmmm" almost in agony, some of them.
Polly Kay (1904-1997) vividly and with humor describes her life in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in excerpts from letters to her son Skip written after 1949, including her 5 last years in an old folks' home.
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- A lifelong Wisconsinite, Carolyn Parsons (1904-1997)got a B.A. in English at Ripon College, taught high school, and in 1930 married Lorin L. Kay, a lawyer first in Milwaukee and from 1938 on in Richland Center (he died in 1970). Their children: Mary Margaret and Richard/Skip, editor of this blog.
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