There are two letters here. One is from my Grandmother, Nana, and one is from her sister, my Aunt Maude. (By the way we did call her Aunt Maude.) For the life of me I don't know who the Nana letter is to. The other letter is from Aunt Maude to me. I'll just bet you there are not many Aunt Maude letters around. OK, Aunt Maude's letter is pretty fokesy, but there are two items I will mention. First, "They tell me you are a hard working man. I say that's good for work never killed anybody, but laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon ovdertakes him. That's me." I think she was saying that the last part of that quote was made up by her. The second item of note: "I think your dad and Jeffrey were going to Bass Lake for a rest this week. I hope they got off. Then need a rest from work and Brian. (Gee is he a queer one.) I think if he could be around you, you could straighten him out. Delsie asked Phyllis to put up the cash to send him up there, but she can't afford to." Somewhere in this blog I will tell you about Brian, but for now let me say I think I dodged a bullet on that one!
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I don't think Aunt Maude had a lazy day in her life.
I believe that when Nana's husband Bruce died of the flu in 1918, leaving Nana, a young woman under 23 years old with three kids, all under 5 years old, in the middle of "Nowhere Colorado", Aunt Maude, who was a graduate of BYU and a teacher, came to the rescue and supported the family in Colorado and continued to support to allow Nana to obtain her collede diploma at Fresno State and then her administrative credential as well.
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