Audrey: No, it’s hard work. Except if you own the farm, (then it would be worth it).

Audrey: Well, Edith, she was always looking in the mirror and fixing herself up. She was always dressing up and going dancing. But I was just a plain old kid. I never stopped to think about it (fixing myself up). Edith didn’t care about study, but I liked it (studying).

Audrey: Yes, we all fell in love with Uncle Frank. He was so tall and had such beautiful thick hair.

Audrey:  No. Nothing was ever said. My mother or father never said anything about that. I think they liked Frank very much.

Audrey: Dad, he was so quiet that he passed (the in-law test). He always helped Grandpa. One time Dad almost got heat stroke helping Grandpa with the hay. We had a barn in the back yard and the barn needed to be filled with hay. Dad always helped (Grandpa).

Dad always had his job. He worked at the mill and then at the submarine place. My father liked Milton. He was quiet, he didn’t have much to say. Dad said that my mother was “as near to an angel as anyone could be” or “as near to an angel as anything on earth”. That’s something to say about a mother-in-law! Grandma was good to him. She smiled and was such a good woman.

As a child? Playing with my doll.  I adopted Edith’s dolls. I had them after Edith. Then Anna Jane got the dolls. They probably all broke with her.  She was reckless. She didn’t sit and hold them.  She was running around and throwing them up in the air.

I’m very alert today.  I’m reading books.

Vaughn (was here).

Everything around here (Alpine Nursing Home) looks so nice. I’m lucky. I don’t have any pain at all.

He had a beard. He was all right.  I didn’t talk with him.  (In those days) “Children should be seen but not heard.”

Didn’t like washing dishes.  Didn’t have to do it too much. Don’t remember ever having to do any chores, outside of feeding the dog.