"She wasn't very tall, with red hair and nice, fine white skin.
Long slim fingers, a high forehead, a nose like Grandma,
and mouth and lips like Grandpa. Real nice disposition.
Never crabby or scoldy. Very easy to get along with.
You look a lot like her. When she was asked for advice, she was ready
to help them in any way she could. She wasn't too talkative, but good to visit with.
Real sensible little person and liked very well by everyone. Our favorite little sister.
She and Aunt Vera were called the little kids at home. She liked to dance.
She had a nice singing voice.
We were a close family and when one needed help we helped each other.
Grandma brot us up that way. She was real smart in school.
She missed one grade. The teacher promoted her, but she said that should
never of been done as she missed too much that she should of been
learning in that grade. She said they will never do that to my kids.
When Rodney [Louella's son] started school, a kid said something about
his mother that he didn't like, so he just klunked him one. ha.
When he told your mother, she said Rodney, you are not supposed to fight in school.
He said, well he didn't have to say it.
Louella graduated from the old East Side Central. We lived on a nice farm
one mile east of the Farmer's elevator and about a half mile north.
They walked to school and on cold or stormy days Grandpa drove them with the
horses and went to get them again. She started high school in Warren,
we lived there then. She was born in a little house on the hill, as they called it,
on a farm north of Manvel. Grandma and Grandpa owned it. I have a picture of it.
I took one of her and your dad and the snowman they had made.
Also one when they were making it. They weren't married yet.
She was a good worker and a good housekeeper. Always kind, good and loving.
When your folks were married they had pretty tough going.
Every once in a while they would have to come out on the farm and stay with us."
(this was taken from a letter from Louella's sister to Margie.
I left all the spelling and grammar just as she wrote it.)
Bob and Louella were married June 15, 1930.
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