December 1935 from The Calls 1935-1943

Dec 6    Working on Christmas cards. Used Juniors snap shot I like so much inside, with "We send out youngest grandchild, Irv Jr with heartiest Holiday good wishes."

Thurs 12  Started for Dunellen at 7:A.M. 323 miles. Arrived at 5:30. We returned home Dec. 19. Had a very pleasant time. Details in 1935 Diary. We, Charles and I, had a bad scare when our car turned at right angles and stopped at the double cable at the edge of the precipice. We left one post dangling. just a little while before I had said "It would be an unpleasant sensation to be falling over the mountain side, but I shouldn't expect to feel much when we got down." It was just before we reached Scranton. Men were sanding the road - it had been sanded except for a little space where we had our near accident, which seemed to be between gangs of men. I had said "Our government is pretty good to us to look out for us like this." I am not sure we ever got over the horror of this incident. 

Christmas 1935 Irving's folks over at 8:20 A.M. we emptied the stockings. It is so much more fun when there are little children. At Robert's we had a nice dinner and fine time generally. 

Sat. Dec 28  Charles and Irving wiring the Pleasant Grove house for electricity. 


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Patty's notes on this entry

Image courtesy of Getty Images 

Junior - Irving Fancher Call son of Irving Joslyn Call and Thelma Keitel

Dunellen - The Francis William Hankins/Evelyn Clara Call family lived in Dunellen, Middlesex, New Jersey from 1927-1936

Charles and I - Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908). He married Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) daughter of Albert Coe (1829-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910) in 1884. 

 Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe


Scranton - Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Did anyone else read this and immediately think of Harry Chapin's song 30,000 Pounds of Bananas? 

Irving - Irving Joslyn Call (1900-1995) son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Thelma Louise Keitel (1905-1996) daughter of Herbert P Keitel (1880-1957) and Mary R Fancher (1885-1980) in 1927

Children of Irving Joslyn Call and Thelma Louise Keitel in 1936
Herbert Joslin Call, Louisa Ann Call, Irving Fancher Call


Robert - Robert Vincent Call (1892-1961) son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Lucille Alice Hale (1893-1996) daughter of Frank Herbert Hale (1860-1942) and Amanda Carpenter Reynolds (1864-1919) in 1919. 

Pleasant Grove - One of the Call farms in Stafford, New York. The Calls purchased the farm from Ralph Sweetland, including the house built in about 1823. Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe lived at Pleasant Grove in 1884-1885 and again from 1896-1913. You can read more about Pleasant Grove at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2020/04/memories-of-calls-17-sweetland-farm.html



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