Category: Trella Diaries

Monday, June 17, 1991
bricks 2 hrs
MCHS 5 hrs
Mallard & 5 ducklings on road, front yard & pond. Great feeling to have the greenhouse, garage & patio cleaned. Royce & I worked from 9:30 to 12:30 & things sure look better. Burned 6 bags of trash & have 3 in car to haul to Marion. Set out 2 pots of petunias on patio.
Lunch, bath & to computer to work on Charter for MCHS Hall of Fame. Had 9 suggestions to improve it as presented by J. Telfer. Wrote executive minutes & final version of letter to Co. Commissioners to accompany resolution asking for $10,000 – $5,000 for operating & $5,000 for J.T. salary.
Had bacon, eggs & toast for supper. Then watched TV until bored with re-runs so back to computer after call from Norma Prennie needing lists to call for Fair volunteers. Made data base of those attending program meetings. Printed out – Then created plats for Lower Corridor B&C panels up 4 rows.

Sunday, June 16, 1991
87-71
Up at 7 to work on plats for Lower Corridor panel on computer. In at 10 with it. TOdd Holback & helper laying up lower courses. Worked at Heritage Hall until 3 cleaning up brick records. Checked all originals. Found 2 errors & corrected. Ate with Maray at Wendy’s for $1.80 each!
Set out 12 mum plants that I grew from cuttings – Among Miss Kim lilac – get mad every time I dig into the mud that McCoys dumped on top of soil I worked (Howard did) for years getting friable.

Saturday, June 15, 1991
Bricks 7 hrs
Sun 7 ½ hrs
In to HH at 10:30. Keith Kohler sorted bricks to fit my plat for Lower Corridor panel – We made great progress alone but had ‘help’ from Dick West & Norm Fogt. Corrected Lower Lobby A panel – Found I shold make my plat as someone sets the bricks aside to lay.
Woprked right through until 5 – went to dinner at Harding Motor Lodge (2 hrs!) with Eula & Margaret.
Home about 7:30 – Watched Miss Ohio Pagent [sic] until about 10 – to bed.
Mt. Pinatubo volcano erupting on Luzon – Clark AFB & Subic Bay Naval Station evacuated & speculation about long term weather affects.

Friday, June 14, 1991
Bricks 6 hrs
Finished adding ‘name’ field info ito Bricks data base.
In to HH at 1:30 & worked with Dick West on plat for Lower Lobby A panel – I came home about 6:00 after shopping at Big Banana & Nickels Bakery.
Worked on next panel all evening.

Had planned to go to Delaware for supper & visit new Oakland Nursery there – with 3 Marys. But Mary J having dinner with family members & it was so hot Mary & I decided to eat at Turoff’s.

Thursday, June 13, 1991
Bricks 3 hrs
Delmar Brewer out to work – mostly trimming cut along river bank – along road W of lower driveway – cut red bud there that was dying. Cut Mexican bamboo along rail fence above compost pit. Now if I could get the pile of dirt smoothed I’d feel place looks pretty good.

Worked on entering info in ‘name’ field.

Wednesday, June 12, 1991
Bricks 3 hr
Pair of Canada Geese & babies on pond.
Royce cleaning
Worked on info for ‘name’ field in data base. ‘Name’ meaning name on brick. Found we need that info to make finding brick easier. Originally data base set p as Line1 & Line2 which had ‘name’ info, but not usable to find bricks as some people had first name on 2nd line & last on first & vice versa.

Set out petunia plants to fill in bed by greenhouse.
Baked cherry pie.

To Marilee’s funeral at 1:00 with Mary & Geneva Brewer at Gompf’s in Cardington – Room overflowing. Had a ‘sermonette’ for grandchildren & at cemetery grandchildren released balloons to symbolize Marilee’s spirit rising to heaven!?! – Burial in SW Corner of Waldo Cemetery. Over 50 cars in procession & over 1,000 people called at funeral home.

Tuesday, June 11, 1991
Bricks 3 hrs
Created Name field in Bricks data base. Worked most of morning enering info.
Mary & Bernard picked me up to go to Gompf’s at Cardington for Marilee’s calling hours. Had put a sheaf of pictures in her hand – 6 children – 13 grandchildren. Bob Johnston, her father, here from Eustis Fla, with wife. Could see no resemblance to the man Mary Burtch married. Jim Harris, Jr. here from Walnut Creek, Ca. good to talk to both of them. Room 100×40 completely ringed with arrangements.
Mary & Bernard hugged – first time talked since Bernard married Bette in 1978. We assured each other we missed him & he, us.
In th HH at 4:30 for Exec committee meeting – not much doing.
Shopped at Big Bear.
Called Kathi to tell her about Marilee.

Monday, June 10, 1991
59-84
OAHSM 4 hrs
Slept until 9:00 – mowed front lawn with push mower.
12:00 to 4:00 worked on History of PC Computers & reworked David’s cost sheets for Hardware, software, printer.
Kass called saying Ohio Edison sent me a bill for May/June electricity at 665 Normandy./ Fields renters moved out & I forgot I had an order in to continue service whe stopped by renters. So had to write them to cancel that order & give them Field’s address. Told Kass to forward bill to them.
Mary out to pick up a copy of Walt’s appreciation certificate for WWII service. Had been sent to David (4 copies) & he sent on up for Olgua.
Mowed lower lawn – watched TV – Howard up at 3:00 PM thinking it was 8:30 AM because it was light.
Pitted cherries that Josh & Jed picked while we were in Cinci.

Sunday, June 9, 1991
Mary Jordan called at 8:00 to tell me before I heard it on the news that Marilee was killed last night at 9:00. Drunk driver from KY didn’t stop at Rt. 423 coming from marion Cardington Rd E. She died instantly./
Defrosted some spaghetti I had baked & made some fruit jetll. Picked Mary H up about 12:00 & went to Mary & Carls – Nancy & Ron there & Bob & Pat came & also Jackie & Jerry Ballenger. Mary J had been to Waldo to see Keith – Her garde at back so well designed & cared for.
At 2:00 Mary H & I went to Emmanuel Lutheran Chruch to greet Wanda & Willis Nye on their 60th wedding anniversary.
Drove along Claridon Prairie & listed bloomers – First butterfly weed & black eyed susans. Talked to a Railroad Historian who was not very friendly.
Called David to tell him about Marilee.

Saturday, June 8, 1991
Shopped with David & Karen at Sams Warehouse – $169 – film, tapes, food, office supplies.
Mary & I stopped at Caesar’s Creek Lake & took a little walk below the 200’ dam. Also stopped at Brown Lake State Park N of Springfield. Home about 5:00. If anyone ever needs my journals I’m not sure they will find it as interesting as I found the Moody’s.