World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
In 1966 I was divorced and Lynn was attending college at Hillsdale,
Michigan so I lived alone for three years on Telyea Street. I was
working at the hospital and took the same dinner with me everyday: a
sandwich of lettuce, mustard and baloney. I ate my dinner at the
hospital cafeteria after work each night and had TV dinners or ate out
on the weekends. Several weeks after my divorce Pat Wager introduced
me to her neighbor who was a widow and I started dating Kate. After
the divorce I had the house, a car, some bonds and $18 in cash so I
was starting out again financially. I tried to help Lynn with her
college education by taking on more work at the hospital. I worked in
maintenance four and a half days a week and Monday afternoons I was
the purchasing agent for the hospital. I did all the Ordering and
delivery of supplies to all the departments in the hospital. In the
evenings and Saturdays I took care of the lawns and mowed the grass.
I did this for two years and kept very busy.
On October 17, 1969 1 married Kathryn Coons and moved into her home
an Perry Place. The following year I sold the house on Telyea Street
for $14000 to a girl I knew at the hospital. Lynn was now living in
Rochester and attending Nazareth College after marrying Dan Avery on
February 17, 1968. My grandsons Bejamin and Timothy were born in
Rochester on November 14, 1971 and February 25, 1974.
My sister Helen died of cancer in 1974 and my brother Gordon of
cancer in 1979. In 1980 Kate and I sold the big house on Perry Place
and moved to a smaller, newer home on Chapel Street. This house was
just right for retirement with a dry basement, nice garage and
workshop.
In 1970 the new hospital was finished and it was quite a big job
moving into it. For several days I was the only department member at
the new hospital directing all the truckloads of equipment to their
new locations while Harold and Brownie were directing the move from
the old hospital. Some days it took me over two hours to eat my lunch
usually on the run and answering phone calls. The first few years
there I did little painting as everything was new so I kept very busy
doing maintenance work and book and record keeping for the
department. I soon became a "jack of all trades" which made the work
interesting as there was something different to do all the time.
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