Oct 22, 2017

Wed, Oct 22, 1947: old blind Aunt Annie

"And did I tell you my old blind Aunt Annie--Orville's mother--is getting married?!!  That's the real surprise of the family -- Nov. 1, same as Dorothy Snare.  There's hope for anyone, I'm sure.  But I must go to bed--my eyelids are drooping."

--A second letter from my mother, Winfield, Kans., to my father, Protection, Kans., Wednesday, October 22, 1947, late evening. My mother's great aunt Annie was 68 when she married for the second time. His first husband had died in 1934. Annie had lost her eyesight to glaucoma.  In a ceremony performed by my grandfather, Annie married her braille teacher (about 66 years old) who was also blind.  They lived in an apartment at the farm of her son, Orville. 

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