(1975 April 23)
The weather is very unsettled here, with a thunderstorm early this morning. Dee brings in so much mud I have given up putting the broom away and keep it handy. Mrs. Johnston [the cleaning lady], after her bath, stepped on a needle which went into her heel, so could not come yesterday - again to the doctor, etc. She was 76 Friday, "a tough old bird" she calls herself, and I agree. So the house is messy.
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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