(1991 February 20)
Do you remember Trinity Church [at Baraboo]? Gothic - beautiful stained glass windows, an altar set back two steps. ... Besides the pall bearers there were no more than six there. ... Even dead, Portia with her strong mind gathered us together for her service exactly as she wanted it.
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.
About Me
- Polly
- 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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