1960
Friday
– New Years Day. Watched Rosebowl Parade
and ball games.
Saturday. Razorbacks beat Georgia Tech in Gator Bowl
game.
Thanks to the Internet - here is a bit more about that game:
The 1960 Gator Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between theSouthwest Conference co-champion Arkansas Razorbacks and the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech representing the SEC. Arkansas defeated Georgia Tech, 14-7, in front of 45,104 spectators. There were two players named Most Valuable Player:Jim Mooty of Arkansas and Maxie Baughan of Georgia Tech
Sunday,
3rd. Maude came home from
Faustina’s.
Aunt Maude's daughter
Monday,
4th. Came home from Van
Buren. Kay’s birthday dinner at
JoEllen’s. I ate with them.
I was 20.
Tues.
5th. Snowing. Did go to Missionary Circle.
Wed.
6th. Choir practice
Thurs.
7th, went to bank to deposit Interest checks
Fri.
8 – Jo Ellen’s 3 to 6 p.m.
Must have been babysitting with JoAnn and Laurie
Sun.
10 – Nora’s & my party at Maude’s
That was surely in Van Buren - she didn't say how and when, but must have just gone down for the event. Nora Comstock Rainwater was 71 - she and I share the same birthday - January 4th. My grandmother's birthday wasn't until January 16th and was two years older - age 73 that year.
Tues.
12 – Wed. Anniversary. 1 to 6 p.m. at JoEllen’s.
My grandparents married January 12, 1908. Until you are widowed, you don't realize that the Anniversary still occurs - even when no one else remembers it.
Wed.
13 – Shopped with JoEllen. Lunch at Coffee Cup.
Thurs. Club party at Mrs. Nix.
Fri.
15 – Went to Rogers. P.M. at JoEllen’s 1
to 6.
Sat.
16 – Eddy Hight funeral.
Eddy Hight was killed on a motorbike he got as a Christmas gift - I think he was about sixteen.. Eddy's Dad had worked for my Dad; they went to church with us; his brother had helped my grandmother with yard work.
Sun.
Mon. Tues. Baby sat at McKim’s.
I'm not sure why she was needed at Mom's so much at this time. I wonder if Mom was having to work some at the office.
Thurs.
21 – Baby sat 6:30 to 9:30 P.M.
Sat.
23 – Graydon spent night.
Mon.
25 – Mattie called. John died.
John King, Aunt Mattie’s
son. Six of Aunt Mattie’s eleven children
had died before her death in 1961. Four
of them were her four youngest; her three sons all died before Aunt Mattie did.
Nora was visiting her sister in
Tahlequah, 16 Feb 1962. Mattie got up in
the night and went to the bathroom but didn’t come out – when Nora went to
check on her, she found her dead.
Sun.
24 – Dinner at McKim’s
Mon.
25 – Bought Car License
Tues.
26 – My birthday. Baby sat at JoEllen’s
all day.
Wed.
27 – Got hair done.
Thurs.
28 – Went to Burleson’s
Probably Clare's mother's.
Fri.
29th – Went to Van Buren with K.M.
Sat.
– Went to Siloam Springs with Clare. She &
Graydon spent night with me.
I wonder if this is about
the time Graydon’s family moved to Siloam Springs. This was the last entry.
There was nothing else. The diary was finished as is this Blog.