Portian downsized

(1986 June 28)

I called Bill and we went to see Gladys and Portia, asleep in a chair [at the Schmidt Home]. I stroked her arm to wake her and she did not know me at first. Her first words were: "I used to live in an apartment with three rooms and my own bath and took a shower every day but the woman in charge wanted the rooms and sent all my furniture off and put me down here with only this chair and lamp." I believe I have never seen such a sad sight in my life tho I know many worse in the world. When things like this happen, I always think if Daddy were only here, he would fix it, and he often put the fear of God into such people and made things right.