Category: Trella Diaries

Thursday April 15 1943
Took Kathy to mother’s & took Mrs. Reddick, Mrs. LeMasters, Mrs Marks & Mabel Woodall to Association Meeting at Springdale. Cold snowy day but had a good time. Grand eats at noon. Made my children’s report. Was a little proud of it.

Wednesday April 14 1943
Finished reading church constitution at prayer meeting. Had to come in late – after Wally got home. Most of the quibbling over very minor points. Finally adopted it however.
Decided to make over my suit skirt for Easter instead of making a new one. It was pleated all around & I’m making a six gore out of it. Washed it before I recut it. Think it will look nice.

Tuesday, April 13, 1943
[No entry]

Monday, April 12, 1943
[No entry]

Sunday April 11 1943
After Sunday School, Mildred Gorby & I rearranged Junior Dept. with chairs facing south & classes along north mostly. To Walt’s mothers for dinner. About 2.30 went to mothers. Aunt May’s there. They all went to Aunt Alice who is quite sick. I stayed with Birdie. Brought Floy & her over to see my garden & give Birdie a start of Grandma Kehrwecker’s baby breath.

Saturday April 10 1943
Kathy acted again last night like she did Thursday night. Woke after we had gone to bed & made life miserable for us for about 3 hrs. Nothing wrong. Just wanted to be up.

Friday April 9 1943
Spring housecleaned outdoors. Raked leaves from hedge & rock wall along sidewalk. Finished ironing. About 6:30 Daddy came over & Kathy & I went with him to Grandma Kehrwecker’s to get baby breath plant. She gave me a large bleeding heart. I set it about in the middle of my perennial border.
Birdie & mother came over just as I was starting to get her ready for bed so of course she stayed up a while & before I finally did put her to bed she really acted up. Wally brought ice cream home from work & we ate & talked. To bed about 10:30.

Thursday April 8 1943
Mother took my ironing home so I worked on Children’s Dept. reports & reading reports & Missionary Education Committee reports all morning.
Left Kathy at mother’s to sleep while Birdie & I went to missionary meeting- Mrs. Holloway gave all the chairmen & officers small sweet pea corsages for their years cooperation.
Mary Johnston came over tonight to start her garden in ours. She’ll help us for produce.

Wednesday April 7 1943
Sick headache. Might have got over it but for all the phone calls. Mary Johnston, Florence Bryant, Ruth Rhulman, Donna Tower, Johnny Ashworth, Emma Osterhold, Mildred Gorby, etc. etc. When Wally came home at 3:30 he called mother & she came over. Daddy here for supper. Was in bed all day except when answering phone. Did complete the reading report of Guild in late evening.
Birdie Hemmerly* over from Barberton to spend the weekend. Came in at 9:15.

*[Birdie P. Nichols Hemmerly 1873-1955, wife of Earnest Hemmerly son of Abraham Hemmerly]

Tuesday April 6 1943
Washed. Wally provoked me into not eating any lunch. I’m sorry he ever met Alymore Phelps since he seems to think his boorish ways are so good to copy.
Took Kathy to mothers in basket of bike & then rode on to Scout meeting. Miss Trent with some more first aid.
To mother’s too late for supper. Brought Kathy home (not on bike- we fell off.) Went to bed about 9:30. Wally just got in. Burning off the land for farming at the Ordinance Plant.