Arnold's Story: November 1, 1950

Hazel has been busy with church work, Girl Scouts and PTA. She messed up the payments of Arnold's life insurance again. Leonard, with Pat's assistance, is applying to medical schools around the country. 

Hazel's sister-in-law Belle Bettencourt and her daughter JoAnn visited a few weeks earlier. Her niece-in-law Amelia Bettencourt Hyer and Amelia's husband Burnett Hyer stayed overnight on their way back from a convention. 

Hazel's brother Elwood and his wife Rubye visited with their teenage son Walter. Her other brother Leslie and his wife Lenore came after that. 

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Arnold's Story: October 10, 1950

Amelia and Burnett had two children — JoAnn and Geoffrey.

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Arnold's Story: March 28, 1949

Bill describes his sister Mary's funeral in Hanford, and expects to see another sister shortly at his home in Glendale. 

He has paid off the loan from 1947 that he and Leonard used to open the New York City branch office of his Ideal System Company. 

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Arnold's Story: September 1, 1948

September 1 brings another premium notice from the Veterans Administration National Service Life Insurance and a letter from father to son. Bill plans to take the Streamliner luxury service from Los Angeles to Chicago for a convention and then onto New York to check up on the Ideal System Company's East Coast office, but he asks Arnold to drop in for an unplanned visit to see how things really are. 

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Arnold's Story: April 20, 1948

1104 East Chestnut St., Glendale, was about a 10-minute drive from Dolly's parents' home on 501 East Mountain St., Glendale. At present though the two houses are separated by a freeway.

Due to her severe diabetes, Dolly has stopped working at the Department Store and has become a "housewife". Though she does not mention her "husband" Lee in this letter, I assume her "we" here refers to the two of them. Lee is not mentioned anymore after January 31, 1948, in the set of letters I have for this blog, I seem to be missing the letter Bill Nevis wrote about the discovery that Lee was already married in the state of Texas when he married Dolly, and he failed to get a divorce. When she learned that, Dolly moved back to her parents' house, but reconciled with Lee in a few months and moved to Bakersfield with him as he promised to obtain the divorce. When that did not happen, Dolly went to court to get the marriage annulled.

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Arnold's Story: October 5, 1944

Amelia Bettencourt Hyer is Bill Nevis's niece and Burnett is her husband. Tommy could be Bill's brother-in-law, Tom Bettencourt. 

The newspaper cited is the Glendale News-Press.

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