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| Notes for Verna O. Somers |
| I guess you would have described my grandmother Verna as the quintessential "school marm." Frankly, I didn't much care for her on her few visits back to Michigan. I recall that she made me sit down and read to her and she was quite demanding. I think I was rather in fear of her. My sister Elizabeth tells me that she came in 1957 when I was two and my oldest sister Jane was to be married. I guess Verna taught me how to climb up the stairs and it upset my mother terribly. Then, she noticed that some of the carpeting on the staircase was wearing thin on the front edges and, as the wedding reception was to be held in my parent's home, she decided that frayed carpeting wouldn't do. So, she tore up all the stairway carpeting (without consulting my father or mother) and had my mother in tears! To her credit, however, she reversed all of the carpet sections and retacked them down with the portions that were not worn facing out on the front of the treads! She must have been quite a take-charge, fiesty ole' gal. I do know that my mother never much cared for her.4 |
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| Of course, when we visited Verna later in the 60s in the nursing home, she was not well at all and I'm not sure she recognized me. By the way, I think your date on her death is correct and it must have been early 1966 when we made that trip.4 |
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