Thursday, July 5, 1979 - "A year older - 73. Busy! Hair done while Mom baked chicken thys while Jim & I shopped. We got Pepperidge Farm pineapple cake and Mom put 5 candles on it. Later John phoned to get flowers - none at our store! I did and hurried home for the Kelloggs - 3 of whom came.
Philip phoned to say 'Happy Birthday' and how old are you? He had to work from 4:30 to 1:30 A.M.!
Ken brought cake they ordered & got as requested by John. Gave me a silver bracelet. All went well. Took pictures."
My mother meant "thighs" rather than "thys" in the second line of her diary entry. She was a good speller most of her life, but later on dementia gradually impaired her language skills. Evidentally they ate with Lottie Meredith, Ruth's mother, and Jimmie, her brother, at lunch in their small home in Largo FL to celebrate Ruth's 73rd - and then dinner with son Ken Kellogg, wife Nellie and younger son Roger (15) to light the candles again. Ruth and John lived on the 7th floor of Horizon House in Clearwater FL for many years after leaving Illinois.
I looked for the pictures Ruth mentions, but haven't found any. I'm not sure if copies were sent to me.
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