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: March 21, 1949

We learn that Bill's oldest sister Mary Nevis Madruga passed away on March 21, 1949, in Santa Cruz, California, at age 72. An obituary from the Santa Cruz Sentinel is here. 

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Arnold's Story: January 26, 1949

 A chatty letter from Bill Nevis to his son Arnold with family news:

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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: August 22, 1948

Hazel Nevis writes Arnold about Leonard's itinerary, hoping that Leonard and Pat can pick Arnold up in McCloud on their way back to Glendale. 

Bill's sister Mary is recovering at her daughter's home in Santa Cruz. 

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Arnold's Story: August 18, 1948

Bill Nevis writes to his son Arnold, who is working at a lumber camp in northern California, urging him to visit his relatives in Santa Cruz and/or Hanford.

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Leonard's Story: August 17, 1948

Bill Nevis writes to his son Leonard at General Delivery, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. I am curious what urgent matter Leonard would need to work with the American Foreign Legion on. 

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Arnold's Story: August 16, 1948

This Mrs. Underwood is most likely Ethel van Wagoner Underwood, wife of Horace Horton Underwood, American educator in Korea (president of Chosun Christian College — predecessor of today's Yonsei University) and documenter of Japanese atrocities there, and not Mrs. Joan Vida Underwood, her daughter in law. Ethel Underwood had a correspondence with thousands of people around the world. Arnold was in touch with her about his desire to become a Presbyterian medical missionary.

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Arnold's Story: August 3, 1948

Hazel writes a birthday card and letter to her son Arnold on his 27th birthday. 

Daughter Dolly and her husband Lee have bought a used Terraplane car. 

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Arnold's Story: July 16, 1948

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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Arnold's Story: July 15, 1948

A letter from Hazel with family news:

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Arnold's Story: March 16, 1948

The Hearsts' ranch in McCloud was Wyntoon.

"Residential District" at McCloud, California (J. H. Eastman, WB-1441)

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