July - September 1941 from The Calls 1935-1943
Tues. July 8. I wrote "Made bouquets, prepared for the W.C.T.U. picnic here. Too cold to be out doors. A dozen ladies. Had regular program. Lots to eat. Mr and Mrs Walzer stayed a while after the rest had gone. Junior is staying with me nights this week." On the 17, the church Women's Society met here.
Fri 18. The Vacation Bible school has been in session the past two weeks. To-night they had their closing exercises and exhibits.
A.D. Sanders Funeral this afternoon. (See Scrapbook pages 24-27)
July 21-Aug 4. Evelyn and her children visited us. Evelyn and I were invited to Flora Radley's the next day. Charlotte Daniels Miller, husband and son, Thelma, Rosalind and Florence were other guests.
The we, Evelyn's children, Robert's Junior and David to Silver Lake. It is very lovely at the Carpenter Cottage where were can see almost the entire Lake. Edith asked the aunts Carrie and Clara, Evelyn's family and me to spend a few days at the Lake. It was very pleasant.
July 30. We were invited to Carrie's for dinner.
Aug 1, A Luncheon at Lucille's in Eve's honor.
Aug 2, With Carrie and Clara, our folks went to Arthur's to spend the day. "Bertha is having the largest Tourist business she has ever had, as many as nine one night, - which is capacity. We were pleased to go up to Bob and Pat's Apartment, made over Arthur's garage. Very low, slanting ceilings, but cosy and pleasant. "Evelyn and Arthur worked on the revision of the D.A.R. application papers, and took them to Arch Call, Justice of the Peace, to be sworn to. Evelyn took Clara and the children to Fort Niagara."
Louisa went back to Collegeville with them.
Sat. Aug 9. Mr and Mrs Bennett came. Thelma asked us there to supper, then we drove to Silver Lake. "Edith brought us and the Bennetts home. Gasoline is not sold to pleasure cars between 7 P.M and 7 A.M, and Edith was very much afraid she would be out before reaching home. She gave almost a short sigh of relief when we were beside our porch.
Sun 10. The Bennett's wanted to start homeward about noon, so we had dinner at 11:30. Their son came for them. We think they are very find people. Ella Thomas rode with Edith and me to the Lake, - spent some time at the Carpenter Cottage and rode home with Irving.
Aug 11. "Called on Mrs. Walkley, and then on Mr. Torrey. He was in a wheel chair, - very thin and feeble. I was very glad to see her looking as well."
Aug 14. Irving's man Shamp went to Buffalo with a load of oats yesterday and forgot his license. He was arrested for that and for something wrong about the truck. Shamp ran away with his car, said he started for Pennsylvania, but smashed the car. We have been feeling especially sorry for his wife and their six children.
We went to the Fair and stayed to the evening entertainment.
Aug 16. "Bob and Pat" came, at my invitation, and went to the Fair, Friday night and Saturday.
Aug 22. The Robert Call Family Reunion at Godfrey's Pond. Not a very large number there. A lovely spot. (Page 72 in Vol. II Recollections)
Aug 23. We had the Primary Class party here. About fifteen children, with ten teachers and mothers, - and Mr. and Mrs. Walzer.
Sept 1. Labor Day. Our church people harvested the corn planted by them, and sold to the canning factory. "There was a jolly, happy crown from us gray heads to quite small children." Irving, Bob White and Elbert drew it. We had a fine picnic dinner. Mr. Torrey came in Lucille's car for that. I believe it was Mr. Torrey's idea and he has been so interested in it all along. There was quite a reception for him. I believe about $ 300.00 was cleared, - for the church.
Sept 2. Eileen started back to Cleveland this morning, expecting to be at Work this afternoon. Herbert took the bus to enter Le Roy High School. Edith is teaching at Stafford again. She has six beginners.
Sept 6. Esther Spires married in Batavia's Methodist Church. Ruth Harding and a Skelton, who have been going together for years, were married at 8 P.M. in our Stafford M.E. Church. The church was packed.
Sept 14. Edith and I went to Morganville Church Home Coming Day dinner, where I met a number of friends of the Long Ago.
Later, were went out to see Robert, who is not feeling well again. He had been to the Hospital and if the last treatment doesn't help, he'll have to have a more serious operation than he has had. Robert told of an old gentleman connected in business with him who has lived such a good live and been so true to his principles through much temptation that he has been an inspiration to Robert. It is fine to think that is the kind of man he admires.
Sept 14-17. Arthur and Bertha visited us. As usual, Arthur did various mending and improvements jobs. Bertha helped me can pears, peaches, corn. Lucille stopped on her way to Ithaca taking Marie and Elizabeth back to college.
Sept 18. There was a wonderful display of Aurora Borealis, - the finest I ever saw. "When we first saw it there were streams from east toward west, and the big show was in the south. Later, the display was more in the north with streamers and waves of light seeming to converge at a spot just south of the zenith. There seemed to be pink and purple lights also. (Scrapbook p 28)
Beverly Whittmore, who attended to the real estate in Royal Oak, wrote her recently: -- "My Aunt Jane, who knew your mother when they were young ladies" (in Geneesoe Normal 79-80) "passed away Aug 27th, my sister Agnes, her son Wesley and I attended the funeral. Aunt Jane would have been 81 in October. She evidently had a presenting of death, because she asked to be put in a chair and then tidied up that afternoon. Then she said 'I am ready to go now." "Go where?" she was asked. "To the final place," she replied, and three seconds later she was dead. I think that was remarkable.
Sept 21. Robert said - by phone - he has been feeling better than in a long while.
Sun Sept 28. Changed back to Standard time. Le Roy Epworth League opens to-night after summer vacation. Herbert went with Edith.
Sept 30. Thelma and I went to Rochester. I bought needle point and wool to upholster one of the old hair cloth covered walnut "side chairs" bought by father and mother Call about 1875. Began the embroidery. It is for Irving and Thelma. We chanced on Floyd Walkley, wife and little girl at Sears, where Thelma selected wall paper for the parsonage.
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Patty's notes on this entry
Mr and Mrs Walzer - William Charles Walzer (1912-1995) and his wife Dorothy Kramer (1916-2003). In 1940, he was a clergyman living in Stafford, Genesee County, New York
Junior - Irving Fancher Call, son of Irving Joslyn Call (1900-1995) and Thelma Louise Keitel (1905-1996)
A.D. Sanders - Archie Dovell Sanders (1857-1941), son of John Sanders (1822-1882) and Elizabeth Dovell (1825-1911)
Evelyn - Evelyn Clara Call (1895-1962) daughter of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) She married Francis William Hankins (1897-1983).
her children - Ralph William (1927-1997), Elizabeth Ann (1929-2020) and Philip Charles (1931-2006)
Flora Radley's - Flora Elizabeth Challice (1872-1964) , daughter of John Challice (1841-1926) and Elizabeth Joslin (1841-1886), She was Charles Joslin Call's first cousin, their mothers were sisters. She married Samuel Radley (1866-1952) son of William Henry Radley (1815-1873) and Ann Squires (1823-1873)
Charlotte Daniels Miller, husband and son - Charlotte Louise Daniels (1893-1958) daughter of Walter Scott Daniels (1863-1918) and Elizabeth Alberta Call (1862-1929). She married Frederick William Miller (1895-1978), son of Andrew Miller (1870-1966) ad Rose Margaret Stemmle (1874-1950). They had a son Frederick Andrew Miller (1933-1951).
Thelma - Thelma Louise Keitel, daughter of Herbert Philip Keitel (1879-1957) and Mary R Fancher (1885-1980). She married Irving Joslyn Call
Rosalind - Rosalind Alberta Daniels (1897-1990) daughter of Walter Scott Daniels and Elizabeth Alberta Call
Robert's Junior - Robert Vincent Call, son of Robert Vincent Call (1892-1961) and Lucille Alice Hale (1893-1996)
David - David Lincoln Call, son of Robert Vincent Call and Lucille Alice Hale
Edith - Edith Alberta Call (1889-1989) daughter of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956)
Carrie - Carrie Evelyn Coe (1864-1948) daughter of Albert Coe (1827-1927) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910). She married Frank Lincoln Walkley (1867-1961).
Clara - Clara Addie Coe (1865-1950) daughter of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice. She married James Daniel McEwen (1861-1901)
Lucille's - Lucille Alice Hale, daughter of Frank Herbert Hale (1860-1942) and Amanda Carpenter Reynolds (1864-1919), She married Robert Vincent Call
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)
Bertha - Bertha May Hotchkiss, daughter of Horatio Nelson Hotchkiss (1855-1938) and Carrie Adell VanName (1861-1944). She married Charles Arthur Call.
Bob and Pat - Robert Olin Call (1919-2000), son of Charles Arthur Call and Bertha May Hotchkiss. He married Patricia Fay Sullivan (1921-1994) daughter of Ellsworth Raymond Sullivan (1897-????) and Lida Irene Eastman (1899-1962).
Arch Call - Archie Duane Call (1881-1956) son of Albert Henry Call (1857-1924) and Effie May White (1862-1935). He married Mabel Elizabeth Westbrook (1881-1966)
Louisa - Louisa Ann Call (1931-1975) daughter of Irving Joslyn Call and Thelma Louise Keitel
Ella Thomas - Mary Ella Thomas (1862-1950 ) daughter of Samuel Newell Thomas (1822-1911 ) and Susan Elizabeth Beekman (1825-1906)
Irving - Irving Joslyn Call, son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Thelma Louise Keitel.
Church harvested corn - An article was published in the Rochester Democrat and Republican about the Lord's Acres corn. The following year, there was a brief mention of a similar project for the Stafford Methodist Church in The Daily News from Batavia. Mrs. Charles J. Call was mentioned as the oldest picker.
Elbert - Elbert G.H. Torrey (1902-1953), son of George Horace Torrey (1866-1941) and Jennie M Hurd (1868-1925)
Eileen - Eileen Evelyn Jones (1919-2015) daughter of Malvern Smith Jones (1884-1937) and Edith Alberta Call (1889-1989)
Herbert - Herbert Joslin Call, son of Irving Joslyn Call and Thelma Louise Keitel
Esther Spiers - Esther Margaret Spiers (1916-1996) daughter of Arthur Paul Spiers (1884-1960) and Adelaide Shephard (1888-1975). She married Donald Ellsworth Brown (1918-1999) son of Ellsworth Alexander Brown (1889-1944) and Edith Eloise Haith (1891-1952)
Ruth Harding (1914-2001) daughter of Ernest Gardener Harding (1887-1964) and Carrie Gillard (1885-1954). She married Roger Norman Skelton (1915-2002) son of Norman Bumfrey Skelton (1888-1964) and Cecelia Fredericka Augustine Eick (1890-1980)
Robert - Robert Vincent Call, son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Lucille Alice Hale
Marie - Marie Charlotte Call (1920-2013) daughter of Robert Vincent Call and Lucille Alice Hale
Elizabeth - Elizabeth Ann Call (1922-2012) daughter of Robert Vincent Call and Lucille Alice Hale
father and mother Call - Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908), parents of Charles Joslin Call
Floyd Walkley, wife and little girl - Floyd Frank Walkley (1900-1981) son of Frank Lincoln Walkley and Carrie Evelyn Coe. He married Mildred Emma Brock (1907-2002), daughter of John Monroe Brock (1882-1969) and Ester Pearl Creasey (1885-1960). They had a daughter Phyllis Anne.
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