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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

MY FAMILY

These personality traits, fun loving, joyful, and energized lasted
all her life. She played tricks on people, laughed a lot and
showed unconditional love for her family. She was a tireless
worker without reservations. She was the pillar of our family,
stern, understanding, forgiving, and protective.

As a teen she spent one summer in Asbury Park, New Jersey
with her oldest brother Raymond. He was a pharmacist, and
owned a drug store. She had a curfew, but met a fellow she
liked and would climb out the bedroom window to go out
with him.
Later, when in Philadelphia living with her brother Roger, he
introduced her to a friend. This is when she met John, and
wrote a letter home in 1928. ‘I’ve met this really swell guy. I think
you will like him too. We are going to get married.’ They knew each
other for three weeks. It lasted a life time.

One Christmas my Uncle Rex and Aunt Augusta, Mom’s
oldest sister, visited from California. Like all the Welch sisters
she was a stern, bright woman. They had migrated to
California before World War I, and lived in Redding Calf.
They had an orange grove. He became a California Supreme
Court Judge, while she worked charities.
I had a run-in with her immediately. At dinner she insisted I
eat the peas on my plate before desert. She wouldn’t give an
inch and Mom didn’t come to my rescue. I could have gotten
sick, canned peas are the worst. I choked them down over her

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