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Then on December 15, 1949, Gale and Ramona had their there in time for dinner and started on to Denver with Bill
little baby girl, Wanda Gayle. So now we had two grand- and Blanche. Bill had a Cadillac so we made good time.
sons and four granddaughters. Jimmie and Terry Holmes, We spent the rest of the night at their home in Denver and
Betty Ann and Donna Mae Daniels, Cecelia Holmes and started early the next morning for Utica. We ate dinner and
Wanda Plato. Bill and Blanche’s farm home where their daughter Velma
lived at that time, then Bill and Blanche took us on to Uti-
Otto continued to work in the valley for Ed Palmer and we
ca. We arrived a few minutes before the 2 p.m. funeral. We
still sold milk. In the meantime, after Wanda was born, Gale
stayed at Fahey’s, Otto’s brother who lived just a few rods
planned to go to Diesel School at Portland the spring of
from the Christian Church. We visited old friends, both
1950. So the they spend the winter with us and Gale made
at Utica and Gove, then Bill had us drive his Chevy pick-
our kitchen cabinets, which I adore. Such an improvement
up back to Denver. It had been at the farm. We rested up
in our little kitchen. So they lived in Portland that year. We
some; Otto hadn’t been feeling good, before we took the
always enjoyed the letters and snapshots the family always
bus back to Bonners Ferry – and home. Cecil and Barbara
sent to us while they were away.
had gotten along fine with the chores. They moved back
Otto’s mother passed away the first part of June 1950. Cecil home up on the Yaak.
and Barbara stayed here and did our chores so we could go
We were presented with two more little grandsons that fall.
to her funeral at Utica, Kansas. She died in a rest home in
Johnny LeRoy, born to John and Larena, who still lived out
Denver, near where Mae lived at this time.
north of town, and Donald Lyle, born to Cecil and Barbara
What a trip. We had such a short time to get there in time. at Monterey, California. Johnny was born November 12,
We took the bus, went as far as Sheridan, Wyoming. Bill 1950 and Donnie December 13, 1950.
Evans met us there. We went to Buffalo where Austin and
Cecil, having still been in the Reserves was called back to
Goldie Wilson lived. Blanche had stayed there. We just got
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