(1992 Memoirs)
Olga was the oldest [Ellman] and never married. Minnie, my mother, married a gardner; Max went off to the Phillipines to fight for his country; and Fred was a druggest who always limped [because of an accident with runaway horses] and used a cane as long as I knew him. ... Emma died young.
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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