Category: Trella Diaries

Thursday March 6th registered letter from Carroll with bonded credit card. Cost him $3.15 to send it. Why didn’t he just bring it in?
Packed clothes, genealogy case, camera case and odds and ends bag mostly things to give Dave and Kristi. They leave Sparks today and drive to Tonopah. We’ll meet me at Wilda’s. No time to pick up house very much. In at 4 and cleaned desk and to Gateway Smorgasbord at 5 for Quest Club meeting. They have good food for $3.89 with coffee and dessert included. Asked Mabel Snyder- Fay’s wife to go with me to concert. Barbara Boggs and her dolls for program. Displayed her collection and accessories. Most are heirloom dolls.
Shopped Century for film- only had Kodachrome 25 $3.80 for 36 exposures. Had marked off $2.90- silver up from $7 to $32 an ounce. Then to Big Bear to take advantage of double store coupons. Got $0.80 off that way on 8 oz instant coffee that was $5.85.
The Massenkof Folk Ballet with Nicolai Massenkof- Basso- was so was worth delaying my trip to Phoenix. Six musicians sounded like an orchestra! 8 dancers filled the stage with typically Russian male-dominated dancing and Nicholi (White Russian) was tremendous. Why would he use a microphone with a voice like that. Dedicated Volga Boatman and Old Man River to U.S. hostages in Iran.

Wednesday March 5th
Loren Baker in- looks good. Says Floy can see now since his cataract operation. Mary just same at Kenton nursing home.

Tuesday March 4th
Wrote letter to send 250 businesses for Saint Patrick’s Day, offering green carnations in all forms. Had Dave up order from 300 carnations to 1,000 and have feeling that won’t be enough. Picked up envelopes and Region II Spring Meeting letter. Made out of order for Lakeview Plants. Had Cheryl pay me $1,000 on my loan to Hemmerly’s and sent it to David as a loan to him. Hemmerly balance now $4,000.
Reading Zane Grey’s “The Last Trail” and “Betty Zane” Kenny loaned to me. Since finding circumstances of Benoni Hurlbut’s death at Wolf Creek (Little Hocking) on September 29, 1791 and I can relate to Lew Wetzel and Jonathan Zane as Benoni was a hunter to supply meat for Farmers Castle Fort at Belpre.
Gary oyler in for Worldwide Crafts.

Monday March 3rd
Still pricing Gold Medal shipment of silks.

Sunday March 2nd
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Saturday March 1st
Slept 14 hours!
Called Richard Myers and asked for withdrawal papers for my Investors Diversified Variable Annuity Fund. Have paid in $8,700 over 10 years and its present value is only $9,800. And would only pay out as annuity about what I would have in interest and the principal would be gone! I will have taxes to pay but will still be ahead. Richard was a little unhappy. He won’t get his $4 a month on it. Busy with funerals. Helen White died, widow of Fred, mother and daddy’s friends. Also George Wingett brain tumor. St Mary’s wedding with Brown House reception.

Friday February 29th
Woke with headache. First in a long time. Guess I was too high on excitement yesterday. To dentist but lower partial didn’t fit. Vornholt losing touch? Car to Inskeep again- Instrument panel lights but couldn’t fix and have to order parts.
Home about 4 and to bed by 5.
International Pottery in & Sam Feder of National Pottery in. But pottery and some silk.
Got a permanent at Molly’s at 8:30 a m was really out of it while she did it with headache.

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.