Dear Betty,
Who was your mother? Yes, I know John, Hobart, Mary Lou, Lucille, Helen,
Carol, and Max and other of the Shanks' family. My husband almost lived
at Orville and Louanna's. He and John were best friends and Max taught
our daughter to ride her two wheel bike. Carol baby sat for her, at the
store, when I went to Home Ec and knew I wouldn't be home when she got
out of school. Louanna was such a special lady. I miss her and Orville,
still after all of this time.
Hobart married a girl in my high school class--Mary Jean Conrad. I
couldn't think of her name. Ha. Her mother was a teacher at Logansport
High School.
I also knew the Plank's, Dwight and Hazel, Veronica, Ella Crockett and
Alma Fromuth. Harry Plank married my husband's aunt. They had two
daughters, Crystal and Frances. She died and he remarried and they had
Don.
The Planks', Shanks' and Nelson's are kind of cross related. Wasn't there
Simpson's at Young America? Is that the family you married into. I made a
big mistake and sold our old Co. Directories. Sure wish I had them so I
could look up different people. Sallie