Diary Entry for 11/21/1998

Raining in AM. Cloudy all day. My 81st birthday. Vern and June came for lunch. They brought baked lasagna, cabbage salad, Italian bread, and birthday cake. Also gave me a pretty wine colored sweater. June, Lyla and I went to Martha Meeks funeral at Theresa. A large funeral. We sat in 2nd room. Very sad but nice. Julie wrote a beautiful poem to her mother. Vern stayed with Merrill. Jim came in evening. He put batteries in my new bird clock. Vern took garbage to dump. Boy made out permission slips for Lyla to take their place in giving Betty Fredericks permission for cremation for us if they aren’t available.