Audrey Mae Spencer

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.

Audrey: He always enjoyed a joke and laughed a little, but he was very quiet. He was a quiet man and I was talkative. When I was first married, he never said a word and I gabbed all the time. He would sit in his chair and fall asleep. I’d go to bed and let him stay there. He was so tired from his work.

He liked Gladys and Catherine. Ruth was working then and we didn’t see her so much, but she was very nice and Dad thought the world of her also. Ruth is a great studier.

Audrey: I’m so happy with Alpine.

Outsiders think this is a place where crazy people are, but (Alpine residents) are all intelligent.  It isn’t a dumb place. I remember when I first came in, some people had problems with Alpine.

This is my home now.

Oh dear, I have to unwrap my hand from the phone.

Audrey: The newscaster guy, Tom Brokaw.

Audrey: I love you, dear.