Bill Nevis was a keen user of gadgets and eager to acquire new technology such as his new dictaphone. One anecdote from the 1960s: We grandkids were impressed with their new color television when we visited Bill and Hazel Nevis in Whittier (where they moved after they sold the house in Glendale, to be closer to Leonard and his family). A few years later we proudly revealed that we, too, had bought a color TV, and our grandparents just smiled; they now had a remote control, years before remotes became common in American households. It was primitive device, going only in one direction, so to get to a lower channel one had to scroll through nearly all of them; luckily there were only thirteen channels plus UHF at that time.
Bill speaks in the plural about his daughter Dolly, so perhaps she is still married to Lee at that time. Dolly and Lee has a house in Glendale, too, so I wonder if his last name was McCue. I can find a Herbert Lee McCue with appropriate dates and also from Ohio, later living on the West Coast, but I can find no info linking hi to Dolly nor a marriage license or an annulment order from a court.
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