Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

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Trella Hemmerly – 1985-12-25

Wednesday, December 25, 1985
Good thing I had today to finish getting ready for Christmas.

Gave Howard his cross word puzzle books and several 1950s Reader’s Digests. Also bird feeder from the Heckers.

Haldeman’s arrived about 5:00 and Mary and Ken and Dave and I had already opened our gifts. Gave Heckers a dinner at “The Harding Inn” as they like Hans Kamphaw’s cooking but think it too expensive. Gave all the Haldemans $50 except gave David $250 completing the $1,000 (VCR and Camera, earlier gave him $750) I had promised. Sent Kathi $500 for traveling expenses to Ohio and $500 for her IRA.

Susannah loved her baby in the stroller and blocks. After dinner we sang out of Children’s Songbook that I gave them.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1985-12-24

Tuesday, December 24, 1985
Dave to work at 8:30. I shoveled snow and made delivery on Whetstone South and got to work by 9:30. All three deliveries that I got up last night had left. Got three more ready and rearranged delivery area into more usable space which let me see how filthy the whole back room was. Cleaned the delivery corner. Was at delivery desk right through to 2:30 routing. Lunched on cold meat, ham and roast beef, coleslaw and potato chips provided by Hemmerly’s. First food that has tasted good to me since Monday a week. Finished delivering by 4:00- only about five regular and 15 dinky poinsettias left. Sold only about six dozen roses- price finally ruined the rose trade. I can remember Maggie Gracely doing rose arrangements from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on December 24th.

Dave and I to Mary’s about 5:00 and opened gifts first. Brown cords for him, a large Crystal angel, hose and a see-through cooking pan for me. To Trinity for lovely Christmas Eve service by families. Church lovely and had luminaries around every walk outside. Gary Barnhart invited us to his house afterwards and it is the one Allen and Ruth* lived in on Mary street. Home about 9:30 and Dave and I opened gifts.

[*Allen Sheneman, Ivaloo’s brother and Trella’s uncle]