"Up at 5:30. Went with Vange, Jeanette to Sunrise at Oak Park Baptist. Our B.Y. got banner for 100% present. Had breakfast in Maywood at the home of some girls we took home. Turkey dinner at Y.M.C.A. Ambassador Theater after dinner. State Theater with John at night. Home at 11:00."
Ruth Meredith was busy going from event to event, first with the Baptist Youth group from Austin Baptist in Chicago, which attended the Sunrise Service at First Baptist in Oak Park, a large church that I attended years later. Ruth went on to breakfast in Maywood, a turkey dinner at the Y and two different movies, one with her family and the other with boyfriend John Kellogg.
It was probably a sad Thanksgiving for Ruth's parents, Jim and Lottie. Ten days earlier Jim's only brother, Arthur, who lived in Berrien County near Niles, Michigan, died suddenly at age 48. No explanation was given, but we know that Arthur was an artist, had had some mental issues and had a common law wife, Alice. It was his and Jim's mother, Ruth Parks Meredith, who was said to have been held in a mental hospital in Michigan. Lottie and Jim traveled up to Michigan for the funeral on Nov. 18, a very cold and snowy day.
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