Uncle Clarence

(1992 Memoir)
As I lie in bed at this retirement home, I keep thinking of who I am and of those who came before me.  Tonight for no reason at all my mind is hovering over Uncle Clarence, Aunt Hattie's husband - a Kilmer, a Canadian, I think.  As Aunt Hattie was my mother's youngest sister, I went to visit quite often.  The Kilmers lived in the northern part of Wisconsin where Clarence and his brother had a hardware store, the only one in Oconto Falls.