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some as the washing is brought from the line I fold it & mend everything that needs it & mended quilts & got stronger. Josephine got me & I stayed 3 weeks with her. She & her children paid for a hearing aid for me I am so thankful for. I am told my hearing will get better in time. One day after I was back with Daisys, Ronald & family came with Josephine to visit. They had moved back from Alaska & could tell us things about Jays for they were in Anchorage together, but Jay & Mable write often. They could tell me of Forest's wife too & that Jay is overworked at his Job. So he & Forest are moving & will be in a business of their own. As the weather got so hot I didn't feel well. After a faint feeling came over me Daisy did all she could for me. She had to have an operation, I was so glad to see her get better but when I fainted they let Dwyn come to St.Johns. So she is here with me & so very sweet. I did hate to leave Daisy & pray continually that Ivan will have work here so they can stay here at home & store as they long to. Lou, Vivian & Earl came, Leigh too, he has been feeling bad for years from a fall that left him in a bad fix. Now Drs. say he can't have an operation but his blessing tells of so much there is still for him to do. I am praying as for all my dear ones to be healed. Leigh is better now, Leigh has been healed. I am so thankful Vivian is keeping up as well & that Clarence is being healed since his operation. We had a Richey Reunion with a picnic at the Cottonwood Grove at Richville on July 20th, 1958 & a meeting at night where we elected officers for the coming year. Hugh, Daisy
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& I had started the Richey Family Reunion a year ago last July hoping to get it started to do research & have the help of all the Richey descendants. Many came so we hope to do what we should as a family & with the help of the Lord to find our ancestors. On September 25th, 1957 I fell & broke my leg was taken to the Hospital tenderly. My children paid for the operation. I did not suffer much pain from it & was released October 23rd. Lou & Vivian got me while Daisy was still having Flu. It was very bad but I didn't get it. I was with Vivian a few days but we all knew she isnt able to care for me. Daisy took me home as soon as she could. Jay came from Alaska to see me, stayed a week then had to go back. My children are all so good to me, Daisy feels that she should keep me & is so good to me. After 2 months I could walk on crutches & am so thankful to get around, I get stronger. Daisy soon got me home, it was so good to be home but I had good treatment at the hospital. Many friends & my children came to see me often. They still come to see me at home. Daisy is so kind & thoughtful, the children are too. I can fold some clothes & do a little mending, that makes me feel good to be some help. As Ivan's work is near Casa Grande we moved there in February 1st, 1958. I enjoyed the cool months but as it got so hot in June Dwyn went to St.Johns with me for I had fainted. So she stayed a month, then Daisy & family stayed a month as Ivans work was near by. Then Lou got me & I enjoyed staying with them a month then Daisy put up pears and plums Lou gave for a week.
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