A letter from Vera Cummings thanking Arnold for sending roses remembering her son Carl's death four years earlier. Carl was a close friend from high school in Glendale. Vera Cummings gifted a Limoges china plate to Arnold and his new bride Newlin several years later, in the 1950s. Someone in the family may still have that plate, although some twenty years ago it was dropped, it broke and had to be repaired with glue, so perhaps no one opted to keep the damaged plate. (The Cummings home at 813 N. Central Av., Glendale, is now a real estate business, the neighborhood having been absorbed into the nearby business district.)
Vera Cummings' description of Hazel Nevis arriving home with her hat on is accurate. She always wore a hat and gloves, well into the 1970s. Hazel was a notoriously bad driver. Her daughter-in-law Lucille said that she was indignant when accused of bad driving. Hazel always got into her car and adjusted the mirror first thing, then of course she checked her lipstick and hat and fixed her gloves. And generally without looking in the mirror a second time she would back up. One time she forgot to put the car in reverse so instead of backing out the garage at 501 E. Mountain St., she rammed the car through the wall of the garage. It went partially through that wall and stuck out the other side, on the second floor over the patio.
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