JJ just looked great. I spent almost all of Friday, March 25 with her (it was flurrying Friday, not spring at all). I spent much of Saturday with her, Peter and Yvonne, Mike and Lynette, Sister Faith Margaret, and a few close friends before the 2 p.m. party.
During our visit, JJ gave me some photos, and I recorded almost two hours of her talking about them and the people in them. She remembers our great grandma (her “Grandma Daly”) well. She confirmed for the record Mom’s account of the 1933 trip to the World’s Fair. On that occasion, Ed and Goldie drove a ’32 Ford coupe. They picked up cousin Ruth before leaving Ohio. The girls rode in the rumble seat all the way to California where they picked up Dottie, then 15. Ruth would have been about 13, and Julia 12 in the summer of ’33.
The five of them then drove from California to Chicago, the girls in the rumble seat the entire way. Julia said, “we had a lot of fun.” When she was alive, Mom described with great relish this adventure. The morning they got to the World’s Fair, Ed lined the girls up and gave each one of them a twenty dollar bill, and said “we’ll see you right here at three this afternoon.” Then Ed and Goldie went their way, and the girls went theirs. Chicago. Three girls off on their own.
After the fair, they all went back to Ohio where many people in South Charleston remarked how much Dottie looked like Goldie. Some even mistook Mom for her aunt.
It was great to hear Julia confirm the story. She also gave me about 20-30 pages of Daly family history stuff that I hope to work on this summer.
Julia still has one dog (named “Cats”) and an assortment of feline companions.
At the end of the party Saturday, I bid my farewells, and drove back to Columbus joyous I had had time to spend with cousin Julia.
