June 30, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Wed.   Fair

I went to town all morning.  This evening to Junior Tritts funeral.  To church tonite. 

June 29, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Tues.  Fair  hot.

I canned beans.  Tonite we went tot he funeral home where Junior Tritt lay corpse. 


Footnote:    I can read her writing a little better today and it looks like Tritt. 

June 28, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Monday   Fair

I washed and ironed.  Junior Tritt (Wahoo) died today while driving.  His Mother was injured as the car wrecked.


Footnote:  I can hardly read her writing for Junior's last name so Tritt may not be right.  I remember there was some people with that name in her neighborhood, but I don't know anything about them.  



My note:   I had a really nice week of training with this lady from the Netherlands.  She spoke English with a heavy Dutch accent and she mumbled but I think I understood most of what she said.  I think I need to have my hearing checked.  I learned some new tricks about embroidery that I can use in my work.  I lived in a dorm and had a nice roommate from Orange, California.  The food was extremely delicious, mostly all from farmers in the area and the chef was excellent.   So it was a nice week.  I wish I could do that every year but it is expensive so I have to wait a couple of years before I can do it again.  

June 27, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sunday.  Fair  Hot

Janice & Sammy come for church and home with us for dinner.  We stayed home all day.  To church tonite.  

Footnote:    Janice is her daughter and Sammy is her friend.   Quiet day - I bet they all took a nap.  Sunday's were good for naps. 

June 26, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sat.  Fair.

Janice & I went to see Aunt Rose early this morn.  This evening Sandra and I went to town, up to Mrs. Otey's and up to Fletcher's where  Grandma Cole lay corpse. 

Footnote:  Janice is her daughter and Aunt Rose is her mother's half-sister.  Sandra (b. 11/2/54) is her niece who lives across the road.  I don't know who Mrs. Otey is other that a good friend of hers as she visits her often.   I guess Fletchers was a funeral home or Grandma was in someone's home - that happened as I remember.  The body would be brought back to the home and people would stand watch around the clock until burial.     I don't know who Grandma Cole was and/or if she was a relative or someone from the neighborhood. 

June 25, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Friday.  Cloudy to fair.

Edith, Janice and I went to Kingsport all day today.  Janice & Sammy stayed all nite with us.

Footnote:   Edith is her sister and Janice is her daughter.  Sammy is Janice's friend.

June 24, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Thurs.  Rainy

I planted some beans early this morning. 

Footnote:  I guess those will be late beans. 

June 23, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Wed.  Fair  hot.

I went to town with Millard.  Stopped at Ediths.  Got groceries.  To church tonite.

Footnote:   Millard, her husband, works in Big Stone Gap which is about 9 miles away.  Edith is her sister who lives there. 

June 22, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Tues.  Fair.

Stephen & I worked in the peppers.  Ruth & I went to the funeral home tonite where Eva Kirk Newman lay corpse. 

Footnote:  Stephen is her nephew and he lives across the road.  Ruth is the wife of Everette, Estelle's youngest brother - and Ruth and Everette are Stephen's mother and father.   I don't know Eva.

June 21, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Monday,  Fair.

I washed and put away some things.  Went down to see about Aunt Rose late.


Footnote:   Aunt Rose is her mother's half-sister.

June 20, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sunday,  Fair.

Sammy & Janice were here all day.  Redge's family left this morning.  Millard and I went to Aunt Rose's late this evening.


Footnote:  Janice is her daughter and Sammy is her friend.  Redge is her son who lives in North Carolina.  Millard is her husband.  Aunt Rose is her mother's half-sister.


My note:   I am going to be in school all week so I am going to go ahead and enter all the news for next week.  I hope you don't mind.  I won't have my laptop as I am trying to escape the social media  world for a few days.    I will be living in a dorm and  in school on campus studying embroidery with my hero from the Netherlands.   It is a very special treat for me and I have been looking forward to this since January.   

June 19, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sat.  Fair

Redge and family, Sammy & Janice come for dinner, supper & stayed all nite.  Edith, Doug & Linda come in afternoon.  We all went to Seminary to sale tonite. 

Footnote:  Redge is her son and Janice is her daughter.  Edith is her sister and Doug is Edith's son and Linda is his girlfriend.  They live in Big Stone Gap, about 9 miles away.  Seminary is a community about 6 miles from her home.  It was probably an auction.   Seminary is where my Daddy grew up. 

June 18, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Friday  Fair  cool.

I worked out half day.   Cass & Malissa & Nell Reasor & girls stopped by a few minutes.


Footnote:   Cass & Malissa Reasor are friends/relatives who live in the Big Stone Gap area.  Nell Reasor is a fellow church member and she had 3 girls that I remember.  Patty, Gail and Mary Grace.  Patty is married to Aubrey Hobbs and they live in Deep Springs.  Still go to Deep Springs church.  Gail lives in Kingsport, I think.  and Mary Grace lives in Virginia somewhere in the middle of the state.  Patty and Gail went to Dryden to school but for some reason Mary Grace went to Big Stone to school, she graduated with me in 1960.    She had a good voice and was very pretty.   

June 17, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Thurs.  Sunshiny but cool.

Redge went to eye specialist.  Sandra and I kept the kids.  They come back for supper.


Footnote:  Redge is her son.  Sandra (b. 11-2-54) is her niece who lives nearby and they kept Jennifer (b.7-14-61) and Leisha  (b. 10-3-64). 

June 16, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Wed.  rainy cool. 

I went with Millard to town and on to Norton to see Janice.  Sammy and Janice come home with us for dinner and Redge's family come and stayed all nite. 


Footnote:   Millard is her husband and Janice is her daughter who is now living in Norton, I guess.  Redge is her son and he is visiting from Charlotte, North Carolina.

June 14, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Monday   Fair.

I washed and put away Janice & Sammy's sweaters and winter clothes.  Redge come to Big Stone tonite. 


Footnote:

Janice is her daughter and Sammy is her friend.  Redge is her son who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.  

June 15, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Tues.   rainy

I ironed and Redge and kids come for supper.


Footnote:   Redge is her son from Charlotte, N. C.  He has two daughters, Jennifer and Leisha.

June 13, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sunday.  Fair

Pearl, W. L., Everettes & us took lunch to Ediths today & we enjoyed it. 


Footnote:   Pearl Reasor Barkley is her cousin.  W. L. Barkley is Pearl's husband.  They live in Lee County about 6 miles West.  Everette is her youngest brother, married to Ruth and they have Stephen, Sandra and Smith.   Edith is her youngest sister who lives in Big Stone Gap, about 9 miles away.  Edith has a big yard with shade trees and it was a great place to gather for picnics. 

June 12, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sat.  Fair til noon then rain.

Rosemary & family left this morn.  Janice & Sammy went to Richlands.  I washed and took the clothes to Penn. to dry. 


Footnote:   Rosemary is her daughter who lives in New Mexico.  She is married to Carey Drew and they have Greg and Shauna.  The trip is very long and I don't know how many days it took them to drive it.  Janice is her daughter and I am guessing she is in school in Richlands, Va.  or she has finished school and is working.    Pennington Gap is a town about 8 miles away where they have a laundry mat - her dryer must have been broken.  


My note:   I have been in another show and this one was the worst ever.   I drove 150 miles northeast on I-71 toward Columbus, Ohio and on to Granville, Ohio.  Two things I found out the town is famous for - Dennison College and the corner in town that has a church of different religion on each of the 4 corners.    Dennison is a private, very expensive school.  I was told by my neighbor at the show, that " you have to have a lot of money to live in this town."  She is married to a Dr.    She didn't do any better that I did, she didn't sell anything.    If they had money, they left it at home.  It was hot and stormed both days.  I closed up early on Sunday and came home.  They were having a winefest at the same time , so they were all there just to taste the wine.   Won't do that again!!

June 11, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Friday   Cloudy  hot.  rain by nite

We tried to get Rosemary organized to go home.  Tonite we went to Big Stone for Janice Gail's shower. 


Footnote:   Rosemary is her daughter who has been visiting from New Mexico.  Big Stone is a town about 9 miles away.   Janice is her youngest daughter. 

June 10, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Thurs.  Fair  hot.

We washed & ironed.  The girls & Carey & kids went to see Doris Ann Rogers & baby. 

Footnote:   The girls are Rosemary and Janice.  Carey is Rosemary's husband and the kids are Greg and Shauna I think.  Doris Ann Rogers was a high school friend.  

June 9, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Wed.  Rainy

We went to Norton this afternoon.  The men went to Ramsey.  To church tonite.


Footnote:  Norton and Ramsey are towns about 15 miles away.

June 8, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Tues.  rainy

We washed and went to Big Stone to dry clothes, and on to Norton and shopped some.  

Footnote:
Big Stone is a town (with a laundry mat, I guess) about 9 miles from her home and Norton is about 9 miles from Big Stone. 

My Note:   I survived another show - it was in a nice town - LaGrange, Ky.   The town was lovely, full of little antique shops, cafes and gift shops.  The interesting thing I found was the railroad tracks that run right thru the middle of town and there are 33 freight trains that travel thru town every day.  The graffiti on the trains was amazing.  The train traveled very slow thru town so it was fun to watch the graffiti show as it passed by.  It is the main line between Louisville and Cincinnati - been there for years and the town was built around the tracks.  I heard there was a camper parked on the street in town and the train came thru and took it out.  That is how close the train is to the sidewalk.   It is about 88 miles from Cincinnati, just about 20 miles East of Louisville.   I was tired on Saturday night but not too tired to drive to Louisville to eat at my favorite Vietnamese restaurant - it was worth  the trip.    I'll recover because I have another show I have to set up on Friday in Granville, Ohio (Near Columbus) 

June 7, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Monday  rainy.

We washed.  Rosemary and I went to Pennington to dry the clothes. 


Footnote:    Rosemary is her daughter who is visiting from New Mexico.  Pennington is a town about 8 miles West of her house. 

June 6, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sunday  cloudy

We all ate dinner with Edith.  Her kids were home too.


Footnote:  Edith is her sister who lives in Big Stone Gap - about 9 miles away.   Edith's kids are Patricia and Doug.  Patricia was living in Whitesburg, Ky.  at that time and I think Doug was living in Kingsport already.  Maybe not though as I think he and Linda got married July 3, 1965  and then they moved into an apartment in Big Stone for awhile. 

June 5, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Sat.  Fair & Hot

Janice, Rosemary and I went to town awhile.  Tonite we all went up to Maxfields to a auction sale. 


Footnote:  Janice and Rosemary are her two daughters.  Maxfields was a store/filling station (if I remember correctly) and I think it was in Seminary, about 5 miles away. 


My note:  I am going to LaGrange, Kentucky about noon today to set up my tent for a weekend show.  The show is Sat. and Sun.  The weather has been just perfect all week - cool and the sunshine has not been too warm.  That will all change as soon as I get to the park where the show will be.   This is a new show for me.  It is 85 miles from here, just this side of Louisville.   I hope it is a good show. 

So I am going to go ahead and post the next two days so I am not behind.

June 4, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Friday.   Fair  to cloudy

I planted some corn then Rosemary & I washed.  Edith come in a while late. 


Footnote:   Rosemary is her daughter and she and her family are visiting from New Mexico.  Edith is her sister who lives about 9 miles away. 

June 3, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Thurs.  Fair  hot.

We all went to Patricia Ann & Ron's today at Whitesburg today.  Edith with us too.  It was a hard trip. 



Footnote:     Patricia Ann is her niece, Edith's daughter - that's me.   Ron was my husband of two years then and we lived in a mobile home that was parked behind the radio station in Whitesburg Kentucky.  What a way to start!!!.   It was about an hour's drive over the mountain so I hope that is what she thought was hard.    It was a hard place to be living - dirty and dreary - .   We moved that year in the fall to Richmond,  Ky.  when Ron decided he wanted to go to college at Eastern Kentucky, while I supported us working as a social worker for the state.   We had the trailer moved onto the campus and he went to school every day and worked at the radio station on the weekend .  I worked every day and took classes on Saturday.  We did that for a year and he was called to a job in Louisville, Ky.   So we packed that trailer again and moved to a trailer park in Louisville.   I transferred with the state to a social work position in Louisville.  Eventually we bought a house in Louisville.    I loved living in Louisville.   So that is the story of the Mobile home. 

Junw 2, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Wed.  rained last nite.

Janice, Rosemary and I went to Pennington awhile.    To church tonite.


Footnote:   Janice and Rosemary are her daughters.