from : 6474 Del Cerro Blvd.
San Diego, California
to: Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Spennetta
Box 429
Orange, California
Dearest folks: - 7 A.M. and I am going to get my letter written before time to get up. I also have to write a paper about Pa to read at the U.D.C. tomorrow. We are to meet with Mrs. Harris. Will be my "farewell" to my friends here as my next meeting will be with Emma Jameson up there.
We had a nice rain yesterday and Looks like more today. Has been cooler for past three days but I still kept on my summer undies. Saturday after noon we went to Sharon's to a birthday party for Ricky. There were ten or twelve children romping in the nice fenced in back yard. Sharon served ice cream and cake.
Sunday Everett went to help Mac with his landscaping and he came for Ruth and me to have dinner with Miriam. Their new house is nice and so pretty. It is in a new section, like Del Cerro, only in La Mesa. Miriam and Mac are both so busy. She at the school and Mac, night driving. Miriam has had that position for almost twelve years.
I had nice Easter letter from Helen. She said that the past winter had been the worst they had experienced in all the years in that have lived back there. I was glad to talk to Paul and wish I might have seen him.
We stopped to see Ann and Lynn one day last week. They are getting along nicely. She babysits five days every week, all day and is well paid. Lynn is looking for a "job". David was downtown two weeks ago last Saturday for weekend. We did not see him.
I received a letter from Jerry Shitford, Black Hills Teacher's College, executive(?) which I enclose. I received the "XXXXX" with the article about me, which he wrote using the material you sent and the quesitons I answered. I will bring it up with me. The folks, here all thought it was pretty good and that it was nice that I am the oldest living graduate.
I am thinking of Betty constantly and do hope that she is getting well fast. I wrote her that I am bringing her birthday gift when i got to you. I am longing to see all of you.
Time to get up, so will close with lots of love to all from all of us.
Mama
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pictured:
Miriam in muumuu -- she and Mac loved to travel to Hawaii. Mac had been stationed in the South Pacific during WWII and developed a love of the islands.
Wedding photo in Camp Crook-double wedding of Edna Chuning and Jess Spennetta and Ruth Chuning and Everett Baker. T.D. Pryor (Pa in this letter) is in the picture in a black hat. Sara is on the left holding a child.
Seated in black are Everett and Ruth on their wedding day (cropped from the wedding party picture).
Thomas David (T.D.) Pryor, Sara's father - Pa in the letter. Fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side - qualifying Sara Chuning for membership in the United Daughters of the Confereracy, which she mentions frequently in the letters. T.D. lied about his age and joined at 16 and lost his hearing from canon fire.
The picture of the school children is Ruth and Edna's class picture at the Normal School in Camp Crook S.D. Sara taugth at the school previously and was a graduate of the school herself.
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