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Barbara Bird to Lucy Fernow, May 25, 1951, page 2

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Barbara Bird to Lucy Fernow, May 25, 1951, page 2

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  • (2) With the cost of living the way it is, and with Roy’s take-home pay less than it was three years ago, it has become imperative for me to look for a job this fall. What Grannie pays cannot begin to compensate for my potential earnings (over and above the actual cost, she ^now pays nothing, of course.) But aside from the financial angle, she cannot stay here because her being here is completely disrupting our family life and our marriage. It is that serious. The girls refuse to come home because they will not be witness to her treatment of Roy, even though they recognize the failings of old age. The Torrens give the same reason for not staying here. They are too considerate to add that they cannot have their own reputations jeopardized; but that is the fact. So if you cannot carry out your plan this summer, Lucy (and I don’t honestly see how you can) some other plan must be devised. Please send this letter on to the boys. I don’t know where Leonard is at present;but George Probably could get in touch with him. I strongly suggest that a thousand dollars of Mamma’s money be kept in reserve, for likely contingencies, in the Savings Account where it is. Then in case of serious illness, no member of the family would feel pinched to help meet expenses. In the meantime, her income can be used, and such capital as exceeds $1000. Her income, coming in July, is of course indefinite, but it has been about $700 annually. There is not a little over $1200 in the Savings Account, making $900 available toward current expenses. If I can get a job, which is very likely, at the Depot, I will contribute my share toward the balance of her expenses. However, I will not let Roy contribute from the money he inherited from his mother and which is all we may have to keep us in our old age, besides is a very small retirement. He has done enough, and more. That is the story as I now see it. She can stay here until the end (25th) of July, when here income will be available. It will no where near ### cover the expense of her living in a nursing home of the caliber we demand for her; but it will be a great help. I don’t know, Lucy, whether you told the other members of the family about your plan for Mamma this summer, but anyway I am now giving them two months advance information. That gives them time to make their own ideas known and considered. This is not what I would choose to do, if I had any choice. But the time has come when I must again become a wife and helpmeet [sic] to Roy. Financially and otherwise, he needs my help. I am more than sorry that this is so. My suggestion is that she be put in a home here, if she does not go to Ithaca; and that this be done with the least possible upset for her. I will do everything I can. My love to all of you, Barbara [the following is handwritten in blue pen] P.S. I hope your cold is better. Take as good care of yourself as you can. You may be interest go know that Grannie insists that you told her that you have a “built-in comode [sic]” in your car. And that Karl has resigned as a professor at Cornell. She also claims that George wrote that Horace will graduate from Pennsylvania this June. I thought he had one more year. Of course, we know Roy is a senior at Kentucky. B.
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Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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