(1966 May 28)
The funeral of Mary Speidel's mother ... was an Eastern Star funeral. About seven ladies and one man went up before coffin. Each read something appropriate and placed a sprig of flowers on her coffin. Prayers were said and a song sung. And that was the entire ritual. She had been Worthy Matron and also held offices in the state role.
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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