(1952 December 14)
Church Xmas Sale today very successful. We served a lunch cafeteria style: beef barbecue, turkey sandwiches, cranberry sauce, potato salad, baked beans, pickles, drinks. Father B cashier. I was set to selling rummage at 10 a.m. and so continued till I left at 2:30, with time out to eat. One man wanted a pair of shoes for $1 but came without it. Wantd me to deliver them to Lone Rock bus station where he would leave the dollar.
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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