Category: Trella Diaries

Thursday February 28th
About one inch of snow so Dorotha Davis called and said she didn’t want to go to Columbus. We had planned to go to Ohio Historical Society genealogy room and research the Stokely and Hurlbut lines. Decided I would work on genealogy at home and did until 2 when Nel called saying a cousin was at the shop. It was Delphos Goff that Uncle Allen had exchanged info with. He and wife Jean came right out with his just-published “Our Children’s Ancestors”. The first page I turned to took the Hurlbuts back another three generations! Is delightful and I like his numbering system. You double each number to find the next previous-generation, add one to get a wife’s number. He is Lucy Sheneman’s Aunt Bashabe’s grandson. Mother played with his mother Mamie when they were little girls. But he has never met mother or Uncle Allen. They live in West Mansfield. We visited about 2 hours.
Nel called again to tell me I had won $100 on News Life contest “Why Do People Read News Life?” and a percent with your choice. I chose personality stories- 23%
Wrote to Uncle Allen and Wilda.

Wednesday February 27th
To Country Club at 12. Judy O’Hara escorted me. About 125 women there. Three rules. Don’t discuss your church, your diet, your age. Talked on feeders, bird counts & listing Birds.
Mary J not able to come to Turroffs to eat.

Tuesday February 26th
About 1” snow and icy so Altrusa called off. But turned sunny all day but cold about 15° high.
Free evening gave me time to type out my talk for tomorrow.
Mary Jordan called. She broke her little toe yesterday and can’t go with me tomorrow.

Monday February 25th
Mary Jordan called to ask to go to Christian Women’s Club Wednesday where I will speak on “Winter Is For the Birds”. Mary Louise Rimback, her neighbor in the Schaffner house asked her as her guest, but couldn’t take her.

Sunday February 24th
Picked up the four boxes of bouquets, aisle cloths, candelabra and give away books and was at Sutton’s by 11:45. Laura and Mary helped lay cloth, put up garland and bows and candelabra. Everything went beautifully. Mary at sales table, Laura passing out bouquets Tony pinning boutonnieres and me photographing. Finished about 4 and took box of bouquets to mother’s so she could see them. Not too interested. Always the same “I get so lonesome.” “Why would I go to Mary’s new room. No one is home there. They eat out all the time. Mary has changed so since she married Kenny. She doesn’t have time for me.”
Watched Harper Valley PTA on TV cute.
US Hockey beat Finland to win gold medal
Winter Olympics over!
President Carter asked for boycott of Summer Olympics in Moscow because of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in January.

Saturday February 23rd
4 wedding appointments. Working on five funerals- three sprays. Only Dave and Gary in. Laura did odds and ends. Corsages for Heart Dance. Gayle and I greened, bowed & wrote descriptions on cards. Took 23 pieces to Denzers and have two more loads for tomorrow delivery.
Really pooed.
Wrote descriptions of all bokay and sent to Suttons for Jim Lightner to use tomorrow.
United States hockey team beat the Soviet team! Eric Heiden won five gold medals in figure skating.
David called saying business is bad and he needs $1,000. Is going to have the stamp collection (Ray’s that I gave him) appraised and sell it. Didn’t appreciate the instructions I sent for rolling film- notes from Don Novatny’s talk at Camera Club Monday.
Wonder if he would need $1,000 if he hadn’t spent $500 for his Canon AE-1?

Friday February 22nd Washington’s birthday
To Dr. Vornholt to try partial lower plate and make impression to fill in two teeth above.
To Home Federal to get their letter to Metropolitan accepting my Kyo and Ira.
Got $10 check from John cottrill for copyright and mailed letter in three books to Library of Congress.
Took wagon to Inskeep to have instrument lights repaired. When I picked it up at 6 they still didn’t work.
Took supper to Mother’s Meatloaf apple cobbler and jello!

Thursday February 21st
Wrote letters to Metropolitan asking them to transfer my Keogh Funds (about $30,000) and IRA funds (about $6,000) to Home Federal Savings and Loan for annuities. Will get at least 8% there maybe 10% have been getting 4% at Metropolitan.
Wrote letter to Library of Congress Copyright office asking for copyright on Marion County 1979 history by Marion County Historical Society.
Cooked meatloaf, apple cobbler and jello
Rain and warmer- ice going out of river when the water came up.

Wednesday February 20th
Dinner with Jordans and Heckers at Turroffs. Transfer Davy and Kristi Christmas and birthday money from CDs to 2 ½ year 11% account. Davy has $1,500 and Christy $1,250.

Tuesday February 19th
Had supper at Ponderosa before going to board meeting of MCHS. Had to call Big Red Quick Print to get a key since I left mine at apothecary on Sanibel Island. Effie ask that Carroll turn in his key since he left a candle burn out on the mantle and had left the door unlocked several times when he worked up there. Board voted to write him a letter asking him to leave key at Hemmerly’s. Also voted to pay the $200 in gasoline bills he has spent since the Log Cabin was moved. Board had already paid $100 for the move. But the letter will ask him to return credit card to Hemmerly’s that he has been charging on. What if the board knew that there is a $2,300 discrepancy in funds on the Old House Cookbook? I found it when trying to determine expenses and receipts on it. When I was at Mildred Grigsby’s she said the whole group was completely fed up with Carroll dominance of that project!
Called at funeral Home on Mr. Kenneth Albert Geneva Brewers father.