There was not much work that
first winter, but I did get a chance to help Leon for a couple of
months at Brigham Hall. The next spring we had the chance to rent the
house on Mason Street where Sands and Millie Mullins had been living.
I went to Rochester and had a good talk with the landlord whom I
convinced to rent it to us. At that time the rent was only $25 a
month and as soon as the Mullins moved out, we moved in. While living
there our daughter Lynn was born on April 22, 1947.
During the summer of i946 we took a trip to Kirksville, Missouri to
visit Bruce and his wife Marie. Paul Maxwell, one of the pilots I had
flown with in England, lived in Tarre Haute, Indiana and I had his
address so we stopped to see him. His wife was home and told me where
he worked so I looked him up. It was some kind of a factory or office
building and I was walking down a corridor when I saw him ahead of me
so I caught up, tapped him on the shoulder and said 'hi'. He was very
surprised and we spent the evening with dinner at their home. We
stayed in a motel and drove to Missouri the next day. Bruce was just
getting settled in and lived in a small older house off the main
road. We stayed several days with them, talking, fishing and going on
picnics. We arrived there on a Saturday and stayed up half the night
talking and drinking. The next morning we awoke with terrific
hangovers and Just barely made it through church services.
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