Hazel writes Arnold with family news — Bill and Mary Ann visiting Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara for checkups (both have diabetes), Tom and Alice Madruga visiting with their three daughters, Pat quitting her job, and Leonard having two weeks off after his final exams.
Clinitest tablets are used to test for sugar (glucose) in one's urine.
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Hazel writes with Bill's desired itinerary for his East Coast visit. He wants to go Cohasset, Massachusetts, to visit someone named Virginia.
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Hazel writes Arnold a few days after Dolly's funeral. She was buried in her wedding gown in Forest Lawn Cemetery, where eight years later, Arnold's first-born son will be buried (though eventually disinterred and moved to a cemetery in Florida to make run for Arnold's sister Laura in the 1990's).
The list of relatives mentioned in the letter include: Tony Nevis (Bill's brother), Tony's son Stanley Nevis and his wife Betty, Bill's sister Isabelle (Belle) Nevis Bettencourt, Bill's sister Mary Ann Nevis Silva, Bill's sister Della Nevis Gomes and her husband Henry, Hazel's brother Les Wolfe (Sr.) and his wife Lenore, and a number of Bill's nephews and nieces, including Amelia Gomes, Alvin Gomes, Alice Gomes, Laura Nevis Mello, Bob Mello, Jerry Mello, Laura Mello, Edwin Buddy Mello, Katherine (Catherine) Mello, Ray and Mary Gomes, and Hazel and Tom Batti. The others cited were Leonard's wife Pat's "Aunt Be" and "Uncle Dave" and neighbors Larry and Helen Gibney. The two businesses were Bill's company, the Ideal System Company and Wayne's Goss Cleaners.
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Hazel enjoys her newly remodeled kitchen.
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I do recall seeing a couple of copper craft items stored in boxes in our home in Gainesville, Florida. I guess they might have been the result of Dolly's efforts, although Hazel mentioned that she and Pat, too, took a copper craft class. I do not think anyone kept them as we did not know their history.
Her diabetes is improving but she is going back soon to the Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara. And she has a newfound love of God and church.
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Bill and Hazel are planning a trip to the Grand Canyon, Albuquerque and Carlsbad Caves with their daughter Laura. And then Bill has to travel for business in September to New York City.
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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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