(1993 July, Rueping memoirs)
[Behind the Rueping cottages was the] Flag Flower Bed: foliage plants, red, white, and blue were used and kept trimmed evenly as the year went on; also flag pole in dark yellow. Father sent for the correct number of plants and set his best man at it. The flag was a replica of real one and a picture is in album of family pictures. I appreciate it more than I did at the time, realizing the math it took.
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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