April - June 1941 from The Calls 1935-1943
April 1. We had as dinner guests, Mr and Mrs Upkilt and Mr and Mrs Chase. Mr Chase has charge of the Egg Plant. The all went to the P.T.A.
3 Had Ted Buhl make me a new will, - the other was made twenty years ago. I want what I have divided as equally as possible among the five children. Wish I could give something to the grandchildren.
April 11. The masons put patches on the pantry ceiling, several in kitchen, two big ones in the den, one in the dining room, a big one in the hall ceiling, lot in the upstairs hall, a nd a lot in the guest room.
Herbert uncovered lily pool.
April 19. Started for Arthur's. Eileen and a young man friend saw us start, as they were ready to drive in, and later accompanied us.
Robert and I saw Ted Buhl lately, and Ted said that often in setting up large estates there were dissentions, but he had seen nothing of it in the Charles Call business.
Marian and Jack Strickland came Sun. Eve, the 27. Irving and Thelma came over, and Jack showed us color steropticon pictures, - of their wedding, the World's Fair, and others. We think Jack is one of the pleasantest people we know. Marian, too, is sweet. She got out of the car to come back and give me an extra kiss! The darling!
April 30. Harry Hahn and son came to paper. First, they put oil cloth ceilings on my bedroom, den, lavatory, kitchen. The oil cloth, cream, - is 48 inches wide. Hahn afterward put on ceiling, ordinary paper, on lower and upper hall, and the hardest part of the lower hall walls. Bill $ 21.40.
It has been very fair and warm. Irving say they have planted peas, spinach for seed, usually grown in Holland and Belgium, and other crops. The paper says magnolia blossoms are three weeks ahead of usual time.
Edith and I called on Ella Thomas, the Le Roy Gazette is about to publish, serially, a History of Pavilion. I believe this is largely composed of material Ella has gathered. As my grandfather, Ezra Coe took up land there and his children were all born there and all of my father's children also, - in the township, - it is of interest to me.
"The Red Osier Farms" opened this Spring.
"The old lilacs have been particularly lovely. Have often gone to door or window to admire them."
After the masons there was no choice but to paper. We papered guest room, Eileen's room and upper and lower halls.
May 23. Edith and Eileen went to Cleveland. Eileen is accepted as an entrant in Western Reserve University for advanced course in Social Work.
May 24. Arthur and Bertha visited here. I was fixing chicken potpie and asparagus. Junior said he would home and see what his mother was going to have for dinner, and maybe he'd come back and eat with us! He came back.
May 31. Air mail letter from Cleveland to Eileen offering scholarship and work for the summer. Thelma telephoned Eileen who was at Silver Lake. She accepted offers, and went June 7.
Marjorey and Elbert Torrey's eighth child born, seven sons.
June 2. New washing machine came
June 15. I wrote "Elizabeth Call is working at the Applewood this summer. We went to see Robert who had an operation for hemeroids last Thursday. They told him he could go to work Wednesday. They showed me two articles composed by Marie, one in the Cornell Countryman about the Advantages and Disadvantages of being the oldest in a family of six - very clever, - and the other a speech she gave about Hobbies. In this she flatteringly refers to the hobbies of her grandmother.
June 22. Irving and Thelma's 14th Wedding Anniversary. Thelma's birthday.
June 23. Mr George Torrey was operated on.
It must have been Sun the 22nd that Edith heard there was a food store to be rented at Silver Lake Assembly. She went Monday to see about it. Took in supplies on Friday and began to sell on Sat the 28th. Irving's folks took me there July 4th. I wrote "it is real pleasant and everything is fresh and new."
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Patty's notes on this entry
Ted Buhl - Theodore Albert Buhl (1900-1983) son of William Ferdinand Buhl and Ida Rhedemeyer. He married Mildred Lester. In 1940, he lived in Stafford with his occupation listed as Lawyer Farmer.
Herbert - Herbert Joslin Call, son of Irving Joslyn Call (1900-1995) and Thelma Louise Keitel (1905-1996)
Arthur - Charles Arthur Call (1885-1962) son of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956). He married Bertha May Hotchkiss (1882-1946) in 1909.
Eileen - Eileen Evelyn Jones (1919-2015) daughter of Malvern Smith Jones (1884-1937) and Edith Alberta Call (1889-1989)
Robert - Robert Vincent Call (1892-1961) son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. he married Lucille Alice Hale (1893-1996) in 1919.
Charles Call - Charles Joslin Call, son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908)
Marion and Jack Strickland - Marion Alberta Call (1911-2000) daughter of Charles Arthur Call and Bertha May Hotchkiss. She married John Kay Strickland (1911-2007) son of Edwin L Strickland (1878-1972) and Mary E Kay (1880-1973) in 1940.
Harry Hahn - Henry Charles Hahn (1888-1984) son of Peter Hahn and Mary Elles. He married Bertha Ann Killian in 1917. In both 1930 and 1940, Henry and his family lived in Stafford, where he listed his occupation as either painter or painter paperhanger.
Irving - Irving Joslyn Call, son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Thelma Louise Keitel in 1927
Edith - Edith Alberta Call, daughter of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe
Ella Thomas - Mary Ella Thomas (1862-1950 ) daughter of Samuel Newell Thomas (1822-1911 ) and Susan Elizabeth Beekman (1825-1906)
Ezra Coe - Ezra Coe (1796-1869) son of Jesse Coe (1769-1843) and Olive Roberts (1770-1854). He married Elizabeth Ann Sornberger (1795-1888) in 1818
Bertha - Bertha May Hotchkiss, daughter of Horatio Nelson Hotchkiss (1855-1938) and Carrie Adell VanName (1861-1944)
Junior - Irving Fancher Call, son of Irving Joslyn Call and Thelme Louise Keitel
Thelma - Thelma Louise Keitel, daughter of Herbert Philip Keitel (1879-1957) and Mary R Fancher (1885-1980)
Marjorey and Elbert Torrey - Elbert G.H. Torrey (1902-1953) and his wife Marjorie Jane Waterman (1901-1993). Elbert Torrey's father George Horace Torrey's second wife was Annie Lane Tregea, daughter of Thomas E Tregea and Lydia Martha Sawdey, who was Robert Call's (1831-1913) second wife.
Elizabeth Call - Elizabeth Ann Call (1922-2012) daughter of Robert Vincent Call and Lucille Alice Hale
Marie - Marie Charlotte Call (1920-2013) daughter of Robert Vincent Call and Lucille Alice Hale
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