Arnold's Story: July 24, 1950

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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Arnold's Story: July 21, 1950

Bill sends Arnold two telegrams. The first reinforces that Arnold should not make the trip west to go home for or after the funeral. The second lets him know the location of the mortuary home in Glendale. 

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Arnold's Story: July 20, 1950 AHN

This looks like a draft of a telegram Arnold might have sent when he received Leonard's telegram informing him of Dolly's death.

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Arnold's Story: July 20, 1950 LJN

Dolly takes a turn for the worse and dies. Leonard sends Arnold a telegram with the sad news and then a letter with the details.

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Arnold's Story: July 19-29, 1950

Laura Hall writes Arnold in Newfoundland.

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Arnold's Story: July 18, 1950

Hazel mistakes the date here: Tuesday was July 18, 1950. For reasons to become clear in a couple of posts, the letter could not have been written on the 20th.

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Arnold's Story: July 17, 1950

Dolly's health appears to improve and they are optimistic for a recovery.

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Arnold's Story: July 16, 1950

Hazel writes with an update to Dolly's health and treatment.

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Arnold's Story: July 13, 1950

Two letters from Leonard on the same day:

Dolly's health has taken a turn for the worse, but then she rebounds a bit and may recover. It appears to be nephritis, not gastroenteritis as first diagnosed.

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Arnold's Story: July 10, 1950

Hazel writes after Arnold's month-long visit and the family trip north to San Jose, San Francisco and McCloud.

Green Valley Lake is northeast from San Bernardino.

My memory is not clear about the fish pond at their home, but I recollect it being large — some fifteen feet in diameter and a foot or probably two feet deep. It no longer exists as Bill ripped it out to divide the double lot into two lots and build a house on the second lot to sell.

 

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