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.
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.
(1988 February 7) There is an older man with a car who lives with mother and grandmother, who takes [a couple Polly met] to church every Sunday, also picks up ladies at Homes, takes Kathryn Bailey shopping, and he brot us home [after Methodist church supper].
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