Category: Trella Diaries

Sunday April 25 1943 Easter – Latest date Easter can occur.
Had 47 in our dept. this morning & our Easter offering for vacation schools was $6.00. About 15 of the children stayed for church & 4 of them went forward. There are 7 to be baptized this evening I think. Gave them zinnia seeds in the dept.
To mother’s for dinner. She kept Kathy this morning because of her being exposed to chicken pox. While Walt bowled I cleaned ceiling paper in Mary’s room. Then Walt, Daddy & I took wild flower trip. Got hazel nut branches in swampy wood & found lovely bank along Whetstone but I fell over a fence.

Saturday April 24 1943
Wrote to Mary- cleaned living room. Planted 7 rows potatoes with daddy toward evening. Ironed Kathy’s things & pressed mine & Walt’s. Colored eggs for Easter after late supper. Wally sent me a lovely 2 gardenia corsage for Easter. Spent afternoon at church fixing grass, tomb, etc. for Easter. Dept. looks nice.

Friday April 23 1943
Cleaned bedroom, Kathy’s room & bathroom.
Wally off this afternoon for Fred Guthery’s funeral. Quite an affair, I guess.
Went up town for my Easter hat & found a darling white one at Kresge’s for $1.69 but almost didn’t get it when I laid it down for a minute. But she didn’t look good in it, so I got it back from her. Then got red checked taffata dickey at Jonas so I’m all set for Easter.
Only a few narcissus out but hepaticas, blood root are pretty.

Thursday April 22 1943
Finished up woodwork in bathroom.

Wednesday April 21 1943
Spring cleaned the bathroom this morning. Looks nice. At Scout meeting Cleo Finley (Spinster- agd 50) came for as apprentice leader. Corp. Bettz W.A.A.C. Recruiter came to teach us to march & when we got to school Mrs. Irey had a visiting leader from New York State. Meeting went very well with drill & First Aid quiz.
Shopped for shoes before Scout meeting. Got blue gabbardine at Nobles. Took a $17 stamp & $4.85.

Tuesday April 20 1943
Wally gave me $5 tonight for clothes. He gave me $2 last week for Kathy, too. He makes 60 cents per hour at the Ordnance Plant. He makes $165 per month at bank, with $16.50 deducted per month for War bonds, $6.40 for Victory Tax and $1.65 Social Security. We still owe $50 on the $300 loan from upstairs have loans on 3 ins. Policies. $56 – $35 – $100.00. Owe about $300 on the car & $1100 on our house. And Wally will probably be drafted next Sept. We have the $180 for living room suit & mattress we bought last June paid.

Monday April 19 1943
Mean rainy morning so I didn’t wash.
Finished up the hem in my skirt tonight.

Sunday April 18 1943
Mrs. McClure brought Kathy in crying just as Rev. Holloway reached climax of 4 Sundays. But I took her to Walt & he went to get his mother & Lewis. We went to Richwood right after Sunday School & they went to church there while Wally & I & Kathy got ice cream & visited a greenhouse. Then to Aunt Ollie’s for dinner. She had prepared last Sunday, too.
Young Adult Fellowship started tonight after church. About 20 present out of the 120 eligible. So I’d call it only fair success.
Kathy wore her new Easter outfit.

Saturday April 17 1943
Down to church in afternoon. Uncapher got the idea of the changed room pretty well. Kathy & I went shopping together to get her slippers & bonnet for Easter. She seemed to enjoy it & trotted right along. Got 3 colored pictures from Christmas film.

Friday April 16 1943
Spent the day making Kathy’s Easter outfit. Little blue French crepe Grandma Ruth gave her last summer.