(1966 July 4)
[Mary Margaret, at RC hospital for tonsillectomy] has a wonderful corner room (#325) - the Housner Room - complete with TV high over the dresser mirror. The first thing she did as we waited for nurse to come in was to snoop in all the dresser drawers. In the top dresser drawer she immediately pulled out a gadget and started snapping it. She said, "Gee - I never saw one of these before. It must be remote control." It was, and the Picture showed on The Box. I was sorry it didn't operate something else just to teach her a lesson.
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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