Cloudy. Rained some. We went for groceries in AM. We didn’t go to Good Friday service at Mills. Talked with Jolie twice. Heart doctor didn’t come. Patty back from Canada.
Monthly Archives: April 1988
Diary Entry for 4/2/1988
Jolie goes home from hospital. I talked with her in AM. Debby here in PM on way home from work. She hangs curtains. I washed clothes. Baked rolls and apple pies. A great day. Almost 70°
Diary Entry for 4/3/1988
Postage goes to 25 cents a letter. Fast time begins at 12 AM. Easter Sunday. 110 at church. No Sunday School. Jim and kids here for dinner. Patty called in evening. A sad but a good day together. Jolie drove out. She has to have more tests.
Diary Entry for 4/4/1988
A beautiful day. Cloudy in morning. Vern and June got home today. Martin Luther King killed 20 years ago. Washed. Band practice for girls. Rained some in evening. Foggy.
Diary Entry for 4/5/1988
June called. Don Gehm’s brother died on Easter Sunday. Vern and June had good trip. We went to banks and got groceries. Renewed CD at Evans Mills Bank for 4 years.
Diary Entry for 4/6/1988
Clinic: Merrill 132/74, blood count 15. Mine 182/98, blood count 12. We stopped to see Aunt Maude. She’s the same. Was in bed. Nice day today. Warm.
Diary Entry for 4/7/1988
UMW at church, 16 there. CD Starts 4 years. We went for groceries. Howard called. Wants Merrill to build fence. Art in hospital at Bay. Talked with Jim. Jolie had another CAT Scan this morning. Got letter from Beulah. Kathryn Haggerty real sick.
Diary Entry for 4/8/1988
Jolie’s doctor appointment. She has several abnormal blood vessels on brain. Talked with both Patty and Jim. She could have a stroke. Rebekah District meeting at Philadelphia. I went for meeting. Virginia Shaw new DDP.
Diary Entry for 4/9/1988
I called Vern’s. Washed Merrill’s work clothes. Made meat load and baked beans for freezer
Diary Entry for 4/10/1988
We went to Sunday School 35, and church 63. We went to city in PM. I got new sink faucets, $40.99. Got stuff for car rust spots.
Diary Entry for 4/11/1988
Nice day. We went to Aunt Maude’s. Merrill and Cheryl took her cat “Boots” to the vet to put him to sleep. She gave us her table lamp. Wrote Ken and Eleanor.
Diary Entry for 4/12/1988
Dad died 28 years ago today. UMW retreat at Antwerp. I went with Margaret and Marion. About 25 there. Merrill took off storm windows. Nice today. Warm. Called Agway about fuel oil. They came, 107 gallons.
Diary Entry for 4/13/1988
I called Patty. Jolie had head ache last night. She has angiogram on May 6 at 8 AM at Mercy Hospital. Kids out of school at 11:00 AM. PPR at Philadelphia.
Diary Entry for 4/14/1988
We went for groceries in morning. Kids out of school at 11 AM. Cloudy. Bible study canceled. Collin at funeral home. I called Doris.
Diary Entry for 4/15/1988
Gladys and Clarence Lamon’s 55th anniversary. School out at 10:30 today. Spring break all next week. Lancaster’s leave for Mississippi tonight. No kids here. Merrill put on new sink faucets. I called Josephine Carnival.
Diary Entry for 4/16/1988
Snow flurries and cold. Washed clothes. Merrill fixed drain pipe under kitchen sink. Had hole in it. He cleaned floors. Merrill took sorted garbage to dump. First time sorting.
Diary Entry for 4/17/1988
Jim has cold. I called Jim and Jolie. She’s bored. We went to Sunday School 43, and church 70. DS was there as guest. Gathering at Philadelphia church at 6 PM. Covered dish, 47 there. Program on Burundi.
Diary Entry for 4/18/1988
Cloudy, 40°. Wrote Vern’s. Started cleaning living room. Merrill went over to parsonage to get Rebekah gowns for Bette Pike for Antwerp Lodge.
Diary Entry for 4/19/1988
Called Cable Co TV. Will come Thursday, 28th. Finished cleaning living room. Rev. Collin here for me to sign papers.
Diary Entry for 4/20/1988
Sunny. Warmer 50°. Cleaned our bedroom. Snowed hard in evening. Raining.
Diary Entry for 4/21/1988
We went to city. I ordered all new eye glasses at Chellis. Got paint for porch etc. We went for groceries in PM. Started study of Revelations.
Diary Entry for 4/22/1988
Sunny. Cold wind. We cleaned dining room and bathroom. Washed curtains and colored clothes. Put plants on front porch. Lots this year because of cold weather.
Diary Entry for 4/23/1988
Washed clothes. Merrill and Bill Burns took junk from church to dump. 2 planks and staging stolen from church yard. Jim and Joel called in evening.
Diary Entry for 4/24/1988
We went to Sunday School 35, and church 55. Thunder and lightening storm during night. Cold and cloudy all day, 42°. Watched Arthritis Telethon all PM.
Diary Entry for 4/25/1988
Kids all back today. Good to have them back. TV cable men working on this road.
Diary Entry for 4/26/1988
Cold, cloudy day. Some rain. Merrill went to store and to Leah’s for new church guest book. About $1400 worth of equipment taken outside church. (Later found)
Diary Entry for 4/27/1988
Sent for massage slippers, $12.99. I went to Rebekah’s, 7 there. Raining when I came home.
Diary Entry for 4/28/1988
TV Cable hooked up. He put wire on Cha’s house. Got wrong house. Works great. We went to Bible study in evening. 9 of us. Raining. Collin not feeling good.
Diary Entry for 4/29/1988
Raining. We went to city for my glasses. Plastic frames. First in years. $145.00. Got groceries at noon.
Diary Entry for 4/30/1988
Cloudy. Washed clothes. Merrill cleaned floors. I baked brownies. Got church newsletter.