Category: Trella Diaries

Wednesday March 26th
Twila Gilbert picked up bulletins and put address stickers on them. I got them in mail at 4:15. Sure hope they make it to members before Monday.
Dinner with gang at Turroffs. Took a tray of Hadley goodies which promptly disappeared.
Visited Bernard at hospital. Was sitting in lobby smoking! Had a colostomy- cancerous but they say got all. He’s scared after Rosina’s death. Again told me his marriage was a mistake.
Took car to Inskeep’s again. They had part for instrument panel lights but didn’t fit so I have to go back again.

Tuesday March 25th Red Wings
Got bulletin for MCHS typed and to Big Red Q. Print. Checking with Xerox on the 6601 copier they will sell at Impex auction Thursday. Wedding appointment.
To Altrusa dinner meeting. Sat with Ruby Graham. Cheryl Albrecht gave program on “Turning Point”. Home for battered women. In less than a year they have served over 100 women in Marion.
Ruth Sloan brought in her mother and grandmother’s clothing to give to Historical Society. Black silk dress and man’s suit coat c.1885. White lawn dresses and slips Circa 1910 – 20. 36 pieces altogether.

Monday March 24th Robbins and grackles back for a week, Howard 30 minutes at 2:10 to 2:40
Took tray of Hadley goodies to shop. Everyone busy with funeral work so I started on my mail. Laura Ellen Nesbitt started three months internship.
Notices back that Keogh and IRA funds have been transferred from Metropolitan to Home Federal. Keogh $33,000- IRA $5,800. Went to Home Federal to transfer the IDS annuity that Cheryl had deposited in savings. Check for $8,900 came while I was gone. Edna Christ advised waiting until Friday to buy. Interest rate now 14.9% maybe higher Friday. It was- 15.7% will get over $800 interest in 6 months on $10,000. As an annuity I would have drawn about $30 a month!
Laura Ellen Nesbit started working on internship from OSU Horticulture program.

Sunday March 23rd
Up at 4:45 at Helens- after juice and coffee she took me to Disneyland Hotel for bus to LA airport. Arrived 6:30. Wrote letters while waiting to Wilda, Jackye and Ruth. Boarding TWA Flight 22 to Columbus in Lockheed 1011 wide plane. Smog almost obscuring mountains. Plane full. Scheduled 8:15 a.m. departure at 8:35- 11:35 Eastern Standard Time. Swing over ocean and back east- 11:40 snow on mountain tops 11:43 Lake Arrowhead flew north of Mount Jacinto and gorgeous lakes in high valleys. Desert east of mountains. 11:55 Mojave desert is a desert. 12:00 Crossing Colorado River- Lake Havasu- Havasu City in middle of nothing. No wonder they need London Bridge to draw people. 12:05 Alamo Lake that we jolted into for a picnic two years ago. 12:08 Bagdad with copper mine lake showing green. Mountains sprinkled snow. 12:12 north of Wickenburg 12:15 Oak Creek Canyon 12:18 Mormon Lake and Lake Mary. 12:22 clouds moving in. 12:23 breakfast omelette, sausage, potato cake, juice, raisin muffin, coffee finished 12:45. Clouds over snowy mountains. 2:00 clouds since breakfast 2:19 descent into Indianapolis (actually 2:40). Reading about Libertarian Party convention in TWA Ambassador Magazine. See why David supports it. 2:25 going down from 37,000 feet through mists. 2:30 circling Indianapolis- on ground 2:38. 2:50 correct time. Changed watch. Off into terminal and back on at 3:30. Take off 3:49- 4:17 on ground in Columbus. Mary, Kenny, Mary and Carl Jordan and mother came in my station wagon to pick me up. We stopped at the Forum for dinner and I got home about 7:00 Howard in bed. Watched “Doctor Zhivago” on TV and bed after news at 11.

Saturday March 22nd
Found that limousine only leaves from Disneyland Hotel not from Santa Ana so this meant I had to pack up and be ready to take things to Helen’s when we went to pick her up to go to Tim’s jog-a-thon for Little League baseball. Packed up to TV box Helen gave me with Hadley’s purchases and attache case and sealed and tied it. Left Allen’s about 11:30. Changed cars at Helen’s and was at Nicholas School West Fullerton by 12:30. Jog-a-thon started at 1:10 with about two hundred kids and some parents running the 330 yard course. Mike and Donna were checkers and Tim ended up with 23 laps. Over four miles and earned over $300 for the league. Kris in her peach exercise suit and long blond hair tied into loose hanks. She ran 14 laps. To Mike and Donna’s at 2521 Crown Way for iced tea and cookies. They have a backyard that is all pool and have built a rec room for pool table, pinball, etc. Then to Helen’s for dinner of lasagna, salad, dinner. Said goodbye to Ruth and Allen, as they left for home. They called saying one box of slides had arrived in the afternoon mail & card from mother. Helen & I watched “Love Boat” and set alarm for 4:45 a.m. Try to think of it as 7:45 a.m.

Friday March 21st
Woke at 10:15 when Ruth tapped at my door! Helen over at 11 and we set off for the coast and Roger’s Gardens. Lunch at Marie Callender’s on the way. My spinach quiche lorraine was excellent. Down MacArthur to San Joaquin Hills Drive and turn right instead of left so we drove through the Fashion Island.. Would have loved to shop there. Other beautifully landscaped buildings were banks, insurance companies, etc, all with a view of the Pacific. Back to Rogers and it is unbelievable. The nursery stock sells itself in such a gorgeous setting. Bought Irish and Scotch Moss for Dish Gardens and a book on Hanging Gardens. Then a beautiful drive down the Coast Highway through Laguna Beach. Not an ugly building in the whole town. To San Juan Capistrano where the swallows returned two days ago. While having a taco it at a drive-in saw three soaring by, but of the mission saw only the top of one building. Back via San Diego and Santa Ama freeways and got into jams near Santa Ana. Allen and I took documents to Xerox place for $0.05 copies and get a new typewriter ribbon. Mary called. Mother home and doing well. BBB out of intensive care. Showed slides & into bed at 9:30.

Thursday March 20th
Typed all morning on Columbus Hildreth genealogy. All completely wrong info as far as we can determine. Aunt Bashabee told him the stories and we think she confused Hildreth ancestors with Benoni Hurlbut. In p.m. while Allen napped I copied 75 pictures from albums. Ran out of film so took Aunt Ruth to Horner’s Plaza and got film and groceries. Allen made me a tape of Ted Bones records and World War I & 1920s records. Helen came for supper- split pea soup and chicken from last night. Trays of Hadley goodies for all of them and took one to Don and Mary Ann in Huntington Harbor. Down Bristol to Edinger and left into a townhouse area with canals for boat tie ups. Her plants luxurious every place in a luxurious home. Three stories all open. Served tray of vegetables including Jamaka with dip. Mary Ann has lost 50 lb and is a beautiful girl. Chris is 14 and he is helping Don turn their garage into a game room. Elizabeth came in with boyfriend Ron. She will be 16 in May beautiful girl. Don says he might come to Ohio to visit me. The rest just laughed at him and said what would he do in Ohio? I told him we could find plenty to do! I drove Uncle Allen’s car 12 miles 25 minutes traffic lights all the way. You couldn’t bribe me to put up with this urban sprawl.

Wednesday March 19th
Planted the Marigolds in the pot I brought to Aunt Ruth and put the rest along the edge of the garden. Uncle Allen says the snails will eat them so he put Snairal around. Took pictures and then put in black and white and started copying old pictures from album. After bacon and eggs lunch I typed for 2 hours- my journal for mother while Allen took his nap. Over to Helen’s about 4- a 20-minute drive on the freeway. Her double mobile home is so luxurious and she has the set of plates “Partridge in the Pear Tree”! She drove us to Knott’s Berry Farm. Browsed the basket shop and then had the chicken dinner- three pieces, rhubarb, salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, cabbage and ham, boysenberry pie and coffee for $4.98. We all brought chicken home in “people bags.” Browsed through the stores got a steamer colander and some candy. Wisteria blooming beautifully. Got a heavy box at Helen’s to pack some of my acquisitions. Home about 10 and to bed.

Tuesday March 18th
Allen, Ruth and I spent day at Santa Monica Mormon Genealogical Library- 45 miles- 1 hour to go. Spent from 10 to 3:30 in library coming out to car for picnic Ruth packed. 1 hour and 45 minutes coming home. Found David Stokely – Abigail marriage record 1799 in Washington County and Henry Sheneman in Tuscarawas County in 1806.
Hamburg’s, salad and “San Fran” vegetables for supper. Called Mary- mother okay and walking around hospital. Will go home Thursday. Geneva is cleaning her house.
Watched TV “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier- how long since I read that? Transcribed notes of today into notebook. Learned lots on how to research.
Reading Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio page 801 Cincinnati Clubs- Ananias Club has only one officer whose business it is to attend only to his own! Probably Charlton Myers’ inspiration for his Salt Rock Marching Society.

Monday March 17th
Started retyping what Allen has ready. Correcting all “verry’s”. This new Hildreth Genealogy starts with the Tuthill and Chalker lines and goes back to William Wells through Mehitable. Got out the old albums and there are many photos to copy. Will use some in published history.