letter from Aunt Mary

When Grandpa Johnnie had to go many times to the cancer hospital in Columbia, we kids got to go along and stay in a motel. how we thrilled with the showers!

when I was 12, Freeda 10, your dad (Bernard) 8, we got to go (just us 3) by train to Des Moines and then by street car wtih Grandma Shafer to the fair.