John Thomas HARRELL

                   FAMILY RECORDS OF L F SPRINGER

   DOCUMENTATION: Birth Certificate,
                               Marriage License,
                               Pictures of Wedding & 50th Wedding party,
                               Picture of Grandma holding Wedding Dress & wearing her 50th Anniversary
                               Dress. (Sue Pitman {Gr. Granddaughter) has the Wedding Dress)
                               Death Certificate,
                               Obituary,
                               Funeral Card
                               Will.
            EDUCATION: Graduate University of Indiana.  Teacher in New Castle, IN other schools in
                                     Indiana before marriage.  Did substitude teaching in IF.
               RELIGION:  Methodist
                 HEALTH:  Cateracts,
                                    Her tiny body wore out before her mind.  She did have to be in a Care Center the
                                    last year of her life but was awake & alert until the last 6 weeks when she had a
                                    stroke & while she knew what was going on she could no longer talk.
                                    4'11 -- if she stretched
                                    Naturally curly hair that was almost kinky.
                HOBBIES: She loved to travel - & did a "GRAND TOUR" of the west before she & grandpa
                                    married.  I have her note book from the trip.  Because of Grandpa's job they
                                    did not get to travel as much as she wanted to.  They did get to the Rose
                                    Parade in Pasadena.
                                    Grandma kept a daily journal.  It was mainly of weather & what she did that day.
                                    She mentioned Grandpa, mother & Uncle Pete & family friends but seldom her
                                    mother (Until the last 6 months when she was total care & a handful) who
                                    lived with them
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Grandma met Grandpa at a friend's house (Stella & Mary Mason) just once before he went back to Idaho to work for the Forrest Service.  She wrote to him & never saw him again until he returned to Michigan to marry her.  They then went back to ID & the "Sunbeam farm" in Oakley, ID.  The family decided that those must have been some letters  One never left the other without a kiss first.  When they had their 50th Anniversary the Mason sisters came to Idaho Falls - neither had ever married.  Other than her parents they were the only ones at the Wedding.  I wore Grandma's Wedding Dress at the Reception.
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Opal was known as the "Inspector General".  She always arrived wearing a hat & White Gloves which she used to check for dust.  Grandpa usually ended up carrying her purse for her as she flitted here & there on her "inspection".
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The Ball family of New Castle (Ball Jars) made her a glass cane as a thank you for teaching their children.  This cane is in the possession of Mary Julia Peters Boice.
                  

                   FAMILY RECORDS OF L F SPRINGER

   DOCUMENTATION: Picture.
                               Was originally buried at th Cadiz Cemetary.  When Grandpa & Grandma moved to
                               Manistee, MI, Grandma insisted that Paul was also moved -- so he is buried there --
                               who knows which Cemetery.  *** 12-90  after reading the book, Mother called to
                               say that when Grandpa & Grandma Harrell were going to move to Manistee, MI
                               that Grandma refused to move unless Paul's body was moved with them.  The
                               Casket was exhumed. Grandma Harrell was never told that the body was GONE
                               So the Casket was reburied in Manistee, MI.  Nobody ever found out what
                               happened to the body.
                 HEALTH: Grandma Peters said that Paul Died of Diabetes.  However, -- in looking at his
                              picture -- he had "other" problems so I question the DX of Diabetes.
                    NOTE: Birth listed in Henry Co. IN but his name is given as Audrey?????  CSS2-63  this was
                              probably his name but he was called Paul.