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| Thelma with her Aunt Ruby (Mother's younger sister) |
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Trips taken 1975- 1984
Sept-Oct 1975- trip to South America (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina) and Africa- South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Kenya, Tanzania, and Botswana. Stayed in 9 game preserves, West Africa- Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria (Lagos). I, alone.
1982- 68 yrs old- China (through Tokyo) for 6 wks- traveled all over by boats (3 day Yangtze trip on the Li River and the Grand Canal- in a "Dragon Ship"), planes, trains including overnites and buses- via L. Angeles and Tokyo coming and going. It took 42 hrs to get from Bejing, China to Ft. Myers, Fla. via Shanghai, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Atlanta- a long time with no real sleep.
1984- signed up for a 3 wk tour (via Brigham Young University) of Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. Tour canceled because of terrorist activity associated with the Lebonese civil war and related "wars".
1982- 68 yrs old- China (through Tokyo) for 6 wks- traveled all over by boats (3 day Yangtze trip on the Li River and the Grand Canal- in a "Dragon Ship"), planes, trains including overnites and buses- via L. Angeles and Tokyo coming and going. It took 42 hrs to get from Bejing, China to Ft. Myers, Fla. via Shanghai, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Atlanta- a long time with no real sleep.
1984- signed up for a 3 wk tour (via Brigham Young University) of Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. Tour canceled because of terrorist activity associated with the Lebonese civil war and related "wars".
Nov 1978
310 Washington Ave. Lehigh Acres, Florida
(sold both Bella Vista and other Lehigh Acres house) year round home.
(sold both Bella Vista and other Lehigh Acres house) year round home.
Sept 1963 to Sept 1977
Bethlehem, Pa.- Bella Vista Acres (on Bella Vista Drive in Bella Vista Acres section) - From Feb 1973 to Sept 1977 in summers only. Winters in Lehigh Acres, Florida- Maple Ave. house.
I took classes (evening) at Lehigh University.
Recto- seal and cysts- seal abt 1970. Bethlehem Hosp. (Dr. Flor)
Tumor removed from rt breast abt 1970. Bethlehem Hosp. (Dr. Greenwood- also our neighbor)
Large bone spur removed from lrg toe area (on top of) of left foot abt 1968- Bethlehem Pa.
Don and I (50 yrs old) to Europe in 1964- Drove thru France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and England.
Don and I to Europe with Bill and Betty Hittinger- the men on business for "the company" (Western Electric and Bell Labs).
Kirt flown to Josette in Norfolk, Va.
Don retired in 1972 at the age of 63.
1971 (57 yrs old)- I, alone, spent 3 weeks traveling all over Italy.
Kirt took over laundry, shopping, and meals at home for Don and Stan.
Sept-Oct 1973- (59 yrs old)- trip to Soviet Union, East Berlin and East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. (Don didn't go)
1977 (63 yrs old)- Japan to meet Kirt when he was released from his mission. I, alone.
I took classes (evening) at Lehigh University.
Recto- seal and cysts- seal abt 1970. Bethlehem Hosp. (Dr. Flor)
Tumor removed from rt breast abt 1970. Bethlehem Hosp. (Dr. Greenwood- also our neighbor)
Large bone spur removed from lrg toe area (on top of) of left foot abt 1968- Bethlehem Pa.
Don and I (50 yrs old) to Europe in 1964- Drove thru France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and England.
Don and I to Europe with Bill and Betty Hittinger- the men on business for "the company" (Western Electric and Bell Labs).
Kirt flown to Josette in Norfolk, Va.
Don retired in 1972 at the age of 63.
1971 (57 yrs old)- I, alone, spent 3 weeks traveling all over Italy.
Kirt took over laundry, shopping, and meals at home for Don and Stan.
Sept-Oct 1973- (59 yrs old)- trip to Soviet Union, East Berlin and East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. (Don didn't go)
1977 (63 yrs old)- Japan to meet Kirt when he was released from his mission. I, alone.
Feb 1960 to Sept 1963
Kansas City, Mo. (actually in a spill-over suburb across the state line into Kansas- 6504 High Drive, in the Mission Hills section of K.C.
I took classes at Rockhurst College (Jesuit) and music lessons.
Hemmoroidectomy. The woman who stayed with Kirt and Stan while I was in the hospital was outraged because I was taking a taxi to the hospital. She wanted to drive me but I took the taxi. Don had important business guests that day at the plant.
We drove to San Diego, picked up Josette, took a side drip into Mexico, went to Disneyland and brought her home to K.C. for a visit. Steve was in the Pacific Navy- 7th fleet.
I took classes at Rockhurst College (Jesuit) and music lessons.
Hemmoroidectomy. The woman who stayed with Kirt and Stan while I was in the hospital was outraged because I was taking a taxi to the hospital. She wanted to drive me but I took the taxi. Don had important business guests that day at the plant.
We drove to San Diego, picked up Josette, took a side drip into Mexico, went to Disneyland and brought her home to K.C. for a visit. Steve was in the Pacific Navy- 7th fleet.
March 1959 to Feb 1960
Bethlehem Pa. (transfer)
Wharton Lane
Josette married to Stephen William Carter June 1959 at home (after his graduation and the end of her sophomore year) by the minister for the young people's group at the Presbyterian Church in Westfield, N.J.
They honeymooned for 2 days at a cabin Steve's parents had rented. After the 2 days, his whole family joined them for the other 4-5 days and then Josette and Steve returned to our home and left from there to drive to San Diego, Cal. where Steve was to enter the navy for 2 yrs (He had taken naval ROTC in College and, therefore, automatically was taken in the Navy at graduation). Josette finished college and got her degree from San Diego State University.
Wharton Lane
Josette married to Stephen William Carter June 1959 at home (after his graduation and the end of her sophomore year) by the minister for the young people's group at the Presbyterian Church in Westfield, N.J.
They honeymooned for 2 days at a cabin Steve's parents had rented. After the 2 days, his whole family joined them for the other 4-5 days and then Josette and Steve returned to our home and left from there to drive to San Diego, Cal. where Steve was to enter the navy for 2 yrs (He had taken naval ROTC in College and, therefore, automatically was taken in the Navy at graduation). Josette finished college and got her degree from San Diego State University.
Sept 1953 to March 1959
Westfield, N.J. 230 E. Dudley Ave.
Fistulectomy- April or May 1954 - even though I was pregnant the OB said it was necessary then to prevent problems at childbirth.
Nancy Reynold, the most prominent and largest Real Estate Broker in Westfield offered me a job as a saleswoman (when I was 3 mos. pregnant- with Kirt). Of course I couldn't take it.
In the late summer of 1955 I contacted Rutger University (about 25 miles away) to ask about evening classes to get a dgree in Architecture. I was told I'd have to go from 7:00-10:00 (pm) 5 days a week for 2 years. (I had 2 yrs at the U. of Utah with the equivalent of a minor in both Math. and Art.) I didn't have that much time to devote to it.
Trip to Canada 1956 and to Wash., D.C. same summer.
Fistulectomy- April or May 1954 - even though I was pregnant the OB said it was necessary then to prevent problems at childbirth.
Nancy Reynold, the most prominent and largest Real Estate Broker in Westfield offered me a job as a saleswoman (when I was 3 mos. pregnant- with Kirt). Of course I couldn't take it.
In the late summer of 1955 I contacted Rutger University (about 25 miles away) to ask about evening classes to get a dgree in Architecture. I was told I'd have to go from 7:00-10:00 (pm) 5 days a week for 2 years. (I had 2 yrs at the U. of Utah with the equivalent of a minor in both Math. and Art.) I didn't have that much time to devote to it.
Trip to Canada 1956 and to Wash., D.C. same summer.
July 1951 to Sept 1953
Bethlehem, Pa. 2445 Main St. Extension- we built the house with no general contractor. Jo Illick (contractor) told me to go ahead and be my own contractor after I submitted my blue prints to him for an estimate for him to build it for us. He was committed to jobs for 1 1/2 yrs. in the future.
Don to charm school in N.Y.C for last 8 mos. and then transferred to New York- so he only got to live in the house for a little over 1 yr. The rest of us lived in it for 2 yrs.
Don to charm school in N.Y.C for last 8 mos. and then transferred to New York- so he only got to live in the house for a little over 1 yr. The rest of us lived in it for 2 yrs.
Sept 1948 to July 1951
Bethlehem, Pa. 1218 E. Rosemont Dr. (transfer)
Stan born Aug 25, 1949 in Bethlehem Hospital. Dr. Pearson
Skin cancer removed from forhead (left side) between Nov '49 and Feb '50 in Allentown, Pa. hospital
Stan born Aug 25, 1949 in Bethlehem Hospital. Dr. Pearson
Skin cancer removed from forhead (left side) between Nov '49 and Feb '50 in Allentown, Pa. hospital
Feb 1947 to Sept 1948
336 Edgewood Ave. Westfield, N.J. (couldn't stand New Market neighborhood kids running wild in gang and vandalism while mothers were at work). Edgewood Ave. Bought house from MRs. Lynch (whose husband was a long-gone alcoholic). At this point we still owned the Bethlehem and New Market houses. Within a short time Don also bought a house down the street from us for speculation. It was temporarily tied up in an estate settlement and the heirs (anxious to sell) took us up on a very modest purchase offer. (4 mortgage payments every month). Lots of economy style meals until we sold the 3 extra houses.
Oct 1946 to Feb 1947
New Market, N.J- 14 Hight St.
What a disaster! All the mothers in the neighborhood, except for 2 of us, worked and their children ran wild in a gang fond of bully-ing and vandalism!
What a disaster! All the mothers in the neighborhood, except for 2 of us, worked and their children ran wild in a gang fond of bully-ing and vandalism!
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