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Sunday, August 8, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Archer and Gainesville 1973

Some family photos from Gainesville in 1973, mostly from Newlin's nephew Peter Marshall's and Suzanne Mills' wedding in at the Archer Women's Club. They married in Archer, Florida, where Suzanne's extended family lives. Besides the Nevises, also present were Suzanne's son Russell (Rusty to us), Newlin's sister Floreine, and Newlin's nephew's wife's Teresa Ferrell.

Joel and Allan attend Buchholz High School in 1973.

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Floreine in blue, Teresa in pink, and Andrew on the right

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Suzanne's mother with Floreine

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Suzanne's mother with Floreine

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Newlin, Allan, Andrew, Joel, and Teresa

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric and Rusty in front, Newlin, Allan, Joel, and Teresa behind

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
The mother of the bride with Floreine, the mother of the groom

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
sisters Newlin and Floreine

1973 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric

school photo (Buchholz High School, Gainesville, Florida)
10th grader Joel

school photo (Buchholz High School, Gainesville, Florida)
High school senior Allan


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Friday, August 6, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Gainesville 1972

Newlin's sister Floreine Ashmore Marshall (later Floreine Langston, when she remarried) lived in Gainesville during the 1960s and came to the house countless times. Here she joins us in Westside Park, two blocks from our house on 11th Avenue.

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Floreine at Westside Park

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric and Allan at the park

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel and Andrew at the park

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a dogwood tree in our side yard 

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a tree in the backyard

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a tree in the backyard

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric with a wheelbarrow

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a carport support

Flo smoked in those years, and here she is sitting outside enjoying a cigarette with some birthday cake. But she quit smoking in the mid 1960s after the school system rolled out an anti-smoking campaign. We kids would see Aunt Flo smoking and ask if she knew that for every minute smoking it was a minute off her life. 

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Flo eating cake and smoking in the back yard

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric taking a break in the wheelbarrow

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric standing in the wheelbarrow

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric on the carport

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel hiding Easter eggs

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan, Eric, Andrew, and Joel; Eric has an Easter basket

1972 photo by Newlin Nevis
Allan, Andrew, Joel, Eric (with Easter basket), and Arnold

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan, Newlin and Joel

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan, Eric, Andrew, and Joel on Easter Sunday

We did not attend cousin Martha Gail's wedding, but Aunt Eloise made sure we got a photo from it.

wedding of Martha Gail Langston and Gary Hurd

Joel

1972 photo by Olin Mills Studio
Arnie and Newlin


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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: 1958 Eddie falls ill

In 1958 Arnie and Newlin learn that Eddie has acute leukemia. They had just signed to buy a house in the San Fernando Valley, but managed to get out of it so they could rent an apartment adjacent to the UCLA campus — for a shorter commute by bicycle for Arnie and for the convenience of being closer to the hospital for Eddie.

Eddie's ID from UCLA Medical Center, 1958



Nursie is writing on the Wakulla County tax assessor's stationery so she crosses the title out.
(She had been tax assessor after her husband died; he had also been tax assessor for Wakulla County.)



Here are a few of the last photos of Eddie's life:
1958 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan with a very thin Eddie, summer 1958, Los Angeles, California

1958 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eddie playing in the back yard of their Westwood apartment, summer 1958 (developed in November 1959)

1958 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eddie and Newlin in the yard of their Westwood (Los Angeles), California, apartment

Here is a get well card from Newlin's nieces and nephews Julia, Robert, Susan, David, and Jane:





This letter is from Newlin's cousin Helen Durrance. (We always called her Aunt Helen). 




The Durrance clan, with Sallie Durrance and three of her four daughters, their spouses and grandchildren, Florida;
Helen on the ladder in the back


Sallie Durrance and her four daughters, with Helen in the very back, Florida, 1952;
the other three daughters are Bertie, Copie and Devota 


The Durrance family at Alligator Point, Florida, 1956. Due to beach erosion, the house had to be moved back at least two times


Helen's nephew Wilburn Lamar "Sporty" Hartsfield, 1957


Two of the Durrance sisters (one is Helen) with Floreine (Newlin's sister), November 20, 1955

Newlin mentioned that Eddie was in an experimental program at UCLA for testing leukemia treatments, and he was lucky to be in it; families were desperate to seek out such experiments for their dying children. She once said that Eddie got two of the four drugs that would within two years have prolonged his life into young adulthood.

Also in that UCLA leukemia treatment program was Richard Skelton, the son of comedian Red Skelton. He was four years older than Eddie, and Arnie and Newlin observed Richard's progress closely, as Eddie's ups and downs with treatment would shadow those of Richard. Richard died in May 1958.

hematology report for Eddie, UCLA

Eddie died on September 7, 1958 at the UCLA Medical Center. Newlin reminisced that in those days one could open the windows in the hospital, and at the very moment Eddie passed away a gentle breeze blew through the room. They allowed themselves some time alone with their deceased son before calling in the hospital staff. 

He was subsequently buried in a vault in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale next to his Aunt Dolly. Several decades later, after Arnie died and Newlin had purchased plots in Tallahassee, Eddie was disinterred from Glendale and reinterred in Florida, making room in Forest Lawn for his Aunt Laura to be buried there in 1992 next to Dolly.

September 16, 1958, certificate of death copy at the Division of Vital Statistics, Department of Health, Los Angeles

Eddie's 1958 certificate of death lists September 7 for his death, acute leukemia for the cause, and September 9 for his burial

Over a year later, Arnie and Newlin make a $500 donation to Cal Tech in Eddie's name, presumably with money from an insurance policy.



For the rest of their lives Newlin and Arnie donated to leukemia charity work and to charities such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation: Newlin always remembered that Eddie had wanted his parents to buy a new car, which they would do only a bit later in 1960.


next post  Arnold and Newlin: 1959

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first post in Flashbacks  How the Nevis family came to California

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943