Reclaimed Memories

lossom and Zylpha arrived January 18th and left on April 8th. Troy had finished the baseboards upstairs before their arrival and we had installed the range, refrigerator and cabinets in the kitchenette. The girls were then free to enjoy themselves shopping and eating out. We still had a lot of finishing work to do on the house.

Bill and Norma Phillips came on March 11th, from Bradenton and spent the night with us.

We left Sharpes for Virginia on May 5th and just stopped for a short visit with the Harrises. We joined hands for prayer just before we left. In the middle of the prayer Rob sank to the floor. Libby said he had been having those attacks. We could see that both were failing fast. He seemed all right when we left. We had stayed in a motel near there the night before so got there rather early in the morning and was able to reach the Glen at 5:30 that afternoon.

Lyn Tutwiler was really renovating the house in Harrisonburg. Both the Florida and the Canadian homes had been sold. We helped her all we could. Troy installed new cabinets in an apartment upstairs the first part of September.

We were invited to, and attended, both the Phillips and the Frank reunions every year if possible. They almost seemed like our own family reunions. The Rexroads visited us in September.

We left for Florida on the first day of October. We had to spend six months and one day in the state to qualify for the $25,000 homestead exemption on our taxes.

We visited our granddaughter, Heather White, and her family in November and was impressed by their lovely, new home on St. George Island, a few miles southwest of Tallahassee, Florida.

The extra concrete car pad and front walk was done last year. (1986) This should have finished our building urge, but it did not! Later we built a storage building to house the mowing equipment. The concrete pad was poured in December of '87 and the building was completed is 1988.  Marion did most of the work.

The Brady Trilogy  I  Reclaimed Memories - (1991)  I  Pop Troy's Anthology - ( 1992)  I  Kinfolk - (1994)