Hazel writes to her son Arnold about his sister Laura, who had just had her tonsils removed at the hospital. Also, Hazel's brother Les has had to arrange a funeral for his recently deceased son Les Jr. (killed in a Navy plane crash in Miami) in San Bernardino, California. Marie is Les Jr.'s widow from Oklahoma City.
Hazel was a staunch Presbyterian until late in life when she converted to Catholicism so that Bill Nevis may have mass said at his funeral. In those days a mixed married between Catholics and Non-Catholics denied a Catholic the honor of a church mass, and younger Hazel refused to bring up her children as Catholics; after menopause she did not mind agreeing to raise her children Catholic. After Bill died, Hazel joined and attended the Church of the Nazarene in Whittier, California, where they had move from Glendale in the late 1960s. I recall that Hazel was a fervent reader and had accumulated a large collection of books on religion by the time she, too, passed from this world in the 1970s.
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