Grandparents Ruth and John Kellogg flew in from their new home in Florida the night before Kate's 2nd birthday. They came in for birthday parties for Kate and also Lynn in May - and to babysit while Diane was at with several AOII functions as brand-new alum chapter president. They stayed long enough to babysit for a week while Diane and Dan were in Las Vegas at an ad agency business golf function. Ruth's diary entry is below.
Saturday, April 22, 1972 - "Seemed like Sunday today. Girls came in to watch me unpack. Didn't sleep very well. Lot of preparation went into birthday dinner for Katie and other grandparents and Vi. D&D spent morning furniture shopping alone. Girls (not Katie) went to a party in afternoon. Olive Kenney phoned.
I went with Diane on a ride to take folks home at 7 - all the way to Austin. Katie liked birthday presents."
The "other grandparents" were Dan and Josephine Pellettiere, who lived in Austin where Ruth lived from 1922 to 1929. Dan's older sister, Vi, helped her parents a great deal. By then they were 80 and 82. The woman who called Ruth was one of her church friends who was still living in Oak Park. When Ruth and John visited our family, they also saw some of their old friends from First Baptist.
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