January 9, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sat.  Rained all day

I didn't get anything done at the house.  Went to Pennington with Edith and Mrs. Block in afternoon.


Footnote:  Pennington is a town about 9 miles  West of her house.  Edith is her sister.  I don't know who Mrs. Block is. 

Sorry I haven't posted in a couple of days.  I went to Leah's Thursday night after I taught a class in Covington.   Leah had called and said Kenny's Dad - who has been in the hospital and/or nursing home for the past month - was much worse and they needed to go to the hospital.  I went to stay all night so I could get Max off to school in case they didn't get back home.  They went to the hospital and he was sitting up talking when they left.  So I stayed with them on Friday and was just ready to come home when they got a call again that he was worse.  So they left again and I stayed all night again.  They came back home and Sat. morning they both left to work on their real estate deals.  I took Max to the antique mall - he loves to look at old toys.  I left Leah's about 5 PM and headed to Rachel's to stay with Hope while they went out with friends.  Leah called about 5:30 and said that Joe, Kenny's dad, had just passed away.  He sure fought a hard battle.  He had 5 children and they all have children and now those children have children so it is a big family.  The only grandchild that is not living in Kentucky is a priest who is studying in Washington, D.C. and he will be returning to Kentucky in May.  I think that is amazing that all those kids are living right under his wing.  And there are a ton of them.     I went with Leah and Kenny and Max to see him on Christmas Day.  He was mostly sleeping then.  He had pneumonia in both lungs just before he died. 
I am back home now and will try to catch up on posting.