Clear, rain Clear this morn and a shower this eve then clear. Redge left about 10 for home. I helped Jennings pick & clean his strawberries Then washed a load of clothes and got Lillie over to mow. Stephen was in awhile. Boots Allman had a breast removed today. It was cancerous.
Footnote by Pat: Redge is her son who lives in Charlotte, NC. Jennings is her brother who lives nearby. Don't know who Lillie is. Stephen Reasor is her nephew, the oldest son of Everette Reasor, her youngest brother. Boots Allman is a neighbor of Edith's (Estelle's sister) who lives in Big Stone Gap, Va. Boots was always at Edith's house and all the family knew her. I grew up knowing Boots very well, she made the best pineapple turnover pies covered with sugar - oh, they were delicious. Boots did not survive the breast cancer . My mother, Edith, always thought Boots was a smoker, she always had a mint in her mouth and in her apron pocket. If one of the kids in the neighborhood was sick, she always came with her thermometer to take our temperature. She never had any children, just all the neighborhood children. She wore her stockings rolled down to her ankles. And her hair was long and gray and she kept it rolled tightly all around the back of her neck. She was a very good person and we all loved her.
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