My favorite niece

Yesterday, I got a call wishing me happy birthday from my favorite niece. The only problem is, I could not figure out which niece was my favorite. I thought at frist it was Missy, then thought maybe Erin, but finally I recognized that it was Janet, Patsy's daughter. So nice to get a call from your favorite. I guess it is nice also to have so many nieces that when they call you are not quite sure which one it is at first.

Going Sixty

Yesterday I turned 60 years old. I walked 4 miles to the red barn and back in 1 hour 15 minutes. I am starting to walk again. I had not walked for almost a month, but I am trying to walk every day now. Even on the cold days I went 2 miles to the graveyard and back. I think it is easier to walk when it is cold than when it is hot. I can put on layers to keep warm, but I can't carry an air conditioner.

Happy Day.

1946

The school records at CCHS for Coin and Douglas only go to 1946. Coin 1946 is the only year Patsy and Richard appear on the records.

1935, 1936, 1937

When was Aunt Fleta Born?

I don't think anyone now knows. The CCHS has school records from Carroll Co. Schools in the 1930s & 40s. I am transcribing some of these records for their Quarterly. The records I have for Grandpa Powell's family are 1932 through 1937 Sunny Lane school signed by Grandpa Powell. I can recognize his hand writting from other examples I have seen. In 1932 he said Fleta was born in 1916, in 1933 the same, in 1934 he wrote 1917 and wrote a 6 over the 7, in 1935 he said 1916, 1936 says 1917, and 1937, the last year Fleta appears on the records, he says 1916.