Category: Trella Diaries

Saturday February 6th
Genealogy meeting in auditorium of HH- speaker a remnant tribe Shawnee part Indian. Since Willis Thomas was waiting for me in Res. Cent. I sent him in to hear him. He was glad to re-establish contact with the group.

Lisa Cowan[?] in again with her boy age 4 and girl age 2- Live wires! Lisa had found a news clipping of birthday party for Elizabeth Cowan in Mch in 1925 and I was a guest.

She was Lisa’s husband’s Aunt. We also found death notice of Benjamin Cowan of Caledonia killed by a train.- Willis bought in 1815 map of Ohio for resource center and discussed how original surveys were made.

To Meijer for refilling FusaMax prescription for osteoporosis $60 for 30 pills and generic not yet available.
Gorgeous Valentine for Kathy and Bob

Friday February 5th
To HH to take letter to board members on Pride Membership- (the letter to life members that Carol asked for was only for secretaries book- not to be sent to board so I finished mailing without it.)
Met 2 Mary’s for supper at Perkins- Stopped at shop and got 800 numbers for Kathy and called her. Took greeting cards to Ruth Carhart for her to buy.

Thursday February 4th
Re-entered all of Monica Loftin’s info on Micron computer. Seems that Hemmerly’s in San Diego area are of the Harold J Hemmerly family (Harold, Joe). Mary out with her income tax material again. I wrote a change of address for her but couldn’t print it out.
e-mail from Dave on ACC Carl Vinson his plane’s motor wouldn’t shut down and they were being held down by “trap” then it caught fire!- but he’s okay- Has flown 11 ½ hours in the last 90 and had lots of legal problems to handle.
Revised Code of Ethics and Calendar 99 and put on disc for R. Carey but also sent by e-mail along with strategic plan.
Kathi called- wants phone number of La Mesa florists to place Dave’s order for one dozen red and one dozen white roses and carnations for Johanna for Valentine’s Day- e-mail from Dave- has flown six times in last 40 hours- last time engine afire while on ship.

Wednesday February 3rd
Checked airfares on computer- played solitaire- Mary out with her income tax. I think she has it all. Dan Wigton called- he’s changing her Cardinal fund to Davis- Ohio Company no longer trustworthy.
Letter from Ray Gottfried with picture and material from Monica Loftin- Letter from Bob Harter it is Tanktown.

Tuesday February 2nd
David e-mailed me command to open new screen for Foxbase (do ) but then could access files. Also my printer won’t print since they moved it back to office.
To Ruth Carhart’s at 1:30 to thank her for carton of Honey Belle and Temple Oranges & grapefruit she had sent from Florida for me and to take her Hallmarks with my article about Lucius and his civil war letters. She gave me the newspaper clipping of his death age 98. One of last two civil war soldiers in Marion county. I picked up originals to scan.
To HH and copied some material on elevator fund but couldn’t find records of who gave to it. At Exec committee meeting Margaret Gracely talked against ever installing an elevator. That is not up for discussion that was decided in 1990!

Feb 1, 1999

Tried to use Foxbase on new computer but no “instruction page” only . prompt sent an e-mail to David! To HH at 1:00- Jane was running the newsletter on office copier upstairs- more her bailiwick I guess Mary H and John and Margaret Cottrell came in to fold and I labeled and we finished by 2:30- Jane took to PO- I forgot to tell her the fold should be at the bottom.

Kensel Clutter came in at 3:00 with his 54 x 54 prairie map of Sandusky Plains- interesting that it is all south of Sandusky River- fantastic piece of study and work to create- Wants to give to MCHS! We will bring to Exec Committee tomorrow- Willis Thomas of Floyd Browne Associates will work with him in creating Master copy and a CD and printing copies.

I took Jane’s lunch in to her since she didn’t take time to go out. Home by 5:30- TV including “Antiques Roadshow” in Los Angeles.
Glen Abel called while I was at Heritage Hall- He also wrote a review of Anthony’s book- Much better than mine- Will be on Barnes and Noble website.

Sunday January 31st
Baked a spice cake and made vegetable casserole. David and family arrived at 11:45 and Sarah and David arrived at 12:45. David put Foxbase on Micron computer and Jed fixed it so it never boots to A: first and that fixes the virus. Also installed SimCity 3000 a game that lets you create a city- Mary came while we were eating. David brought pork barbecue and buns everyone cleaned up their plates. I showed Susannah a Nancy Drew book I thought she might like she said “It’s so long” -so sad to have everything so hard to do. She lives in a world where everything frustrates her.

We all took a walk in the woods. David picked up a big trash bag full of cans etc along the road. Had cake about 4 and I gave David the watch I got as a Discover Card bonus- they left about 5 and went to Mary’s to install crossword puzzle software on her computer.

e-mail from Kristy- Tony got home last night almost a month ahead of planned return from Saudi Arabia
e-mail from Dave from aircraft carrier Carl Vinson his shore assignment will be teaching I think he was pleased also says he plans to pay back all $10,000 of my loan with his PAC money.

Wednesday January 27th 1999

Into HH for meeting with Jane- she okayed letter to members dues not paid and life members.
Discussed Hallmark articles- had minutes that gave elevator fund as $9,000 instead of $96,000 and HPEF at $156,000 instead of $180,000.
To RC [Resource Center] and made 150 copies of Dues Not Paid letter and 75 Paid Life Members and copied Pride Members application. Call from Fahey Bank wanting 2 copies of After 40 Years so I made invoice and took them over to the bank on my way to upper Sandusky. Met Ray Gottfried at library at 1:30 we had it to ourselves- he has made marvelous family portrait sheets and color copied them.

We discussed Monica Loftin’s lack of follow-through for sending info on Joe Hemmerly’s family – (Josiah? Mactellis).
At 3 we headed NW to his house and he showed me collections of Harley-Davidson mementos and his photo and genealogy file. He has a computer with email now.
Then to Wyandotte County Nursing Home to meet his mother and father aged 97 & 94 Lydia Deyson’s niece & husband (Sanborn’s) were there. Roy had just gotten word that Marjorie Deyson (Hague?) died in May in Florida.- Back to Marion at picked Mary up at 4:45 and to Perkins for dinner- they have new decor.
Left trash at Hemmerly’s and past due letters and labels at Margaret Cottrell- took Mary home. Shopped at Meijer.

Friday January 29th 1999
Got long letter from Bob Ferrell about how Carl Anthony got the Phillip’s letters to publish in his book on Florence Harding. He lifted them from the galley proofs of Russell’s book they were only references to them in his “Shadow of Blooming Grove”
Wrote to Monica Leftin and Dorothy Yocum- descendants of Joseph Hemmerle son of Mactellus.
Entered info from clippings Monica sent into Family Tree Maker and printed it out for them.

Mary came out and picked up my recyclables to take to Sims.

email from Brent Staples he discovered Brooks Fletcher and the Marion Tribune.

Thursday January 28th 1999
Royce cleaning- Mary out and folded letters and put in envelopes while I addressed them to Life Members seeking Pride Memberships for MCHS- she took them to Heritage Hall to be mailed- John Cottrell out and picked up pledge forms I forgot to leave with the members dues letters. Sent Kristy $50 check for her birthday and letter for cheaper gas rates.