2013 Memories - Eleanor P Littman

ELEANOR P LITTMAN MEMORIES
DECEMBER, 2013
Eleanor P Littman - Memories Contents

INTRODUCTION: ............................................................................................................................4 MY HERITAGE ................................................................................................................................5 GROWING UP ...............................................................................................................................10 Life as a Young Adult ............................................................................................................. 16 THE EARLY YEARS WITH OTIS .................................................................................................17 Quonset Point Naval Base ..................................................................................................... 19 Our Marriage ............................................................................................................................ 21 Welcome to Ohio ..................................................................................................................... 22 THE LONG AWAITED BLESSING OF A LARGE FAMILY ........................................................25 David Paul ................................................................................................................................ 25 Richard Kim ............................................................................................................................. 26 Michelle Adrienne and Marc Adrian ...................................................................................... 27 Hudson Avenue ....................................................................................................................... 28 Friends...................................................................................................................................... 29 An Intermediate Move ............................................................................................................. 29 Chalfonte Drive ........................................................................................................................ 29 Denise Danielle ........................................................................................................................ 30 Renee Andrea .......................................................................................................................... 30 School Days ............................................................................................................................. 32 Annette Yvonne ....................................................................................................................... 32 Busy Family Life ...................................................................................................................... 33 Holidays.................................................................................................................................... 34 Vacations.................................................................................................................................. 35 Medical Bills ............................................................................................................................. 35 Mmre and Ppre ................................................................................................................ 36 The Teen Years ........................................................................................................................ 37 Always Room for One More ................................................................................................... 37 OTIS ...............................................................................................................................................37 Social Time .............................................................................................................................. 40 RETIREMENT ................................................................................................................................41 Our Time to Travel .................................................................................................................. 42 All the States We Visited or Passed Through...................................................................... 46 Quilting ..................................................................................................................................... 53 2|P age
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Volunteer Work ........................................................................................................................ 53 50th Wedding Anniversary, May 11, 1996 ............................................................................. 54 Enjoying our Grandchildren .................................................................................................. 57 LOSS OF LOVED ONES ..............................................................................................................58 Mmre ..................................................................................................................................... 58 Ppre....................................................................................................................................... 60 Grandma Printz........................................................................................................................ 61 Otis ............................................................................................................................................ 62 Richard Kim ............................................................................................................................. 64 Donna Bader ............................................................................................................................ 66 Timeline .................................................................................................................................... 67 NEW LIFE WITH GRANDCHILDREN ..........................................................................................68 LIFE ON MY OWN.........................................................................................................................68 FAMILY TRADITIONS ..................................................................................................................69 Birthdays and Anniversaries ................................................................................................. 70 Pork Pies: ................................................................................................................................. 73 Banana Spice Cake, Apple Dumplings & Oatmeal Cake:................................................... 74 Oatmeal spice cake topping: ................................................................................................. 75 Spinach Salad:......................................................................................................................... 75 FAMILY HEALTH HISTORY: .......................................................................................................76
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories INTRODUCTION: I was created unique there is no one just exactly like me. God created me with love to love and to be loved. Thank you Lord!
Eleanor P Littman writing in journal from my lifelong friend Jeanne Tenney, January 1, 1997.
I started writing this journal December 1999 and contains bits and pieces of my 74 years. Though I jump around time wise, I write when something or someone jogs my memory. Supplemental information noted from taped conversations, and from the Grandmother Remembers book which I also used to record some memories for Michelle, who compiled them with love for all the family who hold my memories dear. While the world has change since I was a girl they've invented the spacecraft and discovered outer space. They succeeded in preventing polio. A timesaver my Mother never had was a dishwasher. The majority of children today no longer brought up by stay-at-home Mothers. Movies today display more violence and sex. Dating today is different because automobiles are more readily available. I think the younger generation is wiser about life in general. I think a woman president would be more aware of the lower wages paid females for the same work than the wages of their male counterpart.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories MY HERITAGE

I, Eleanor was born October 30, 1925 to Alfred and Elodia Parenteau in Providence, Rhode Island. They were immigrants to the USA, both were both born in the province of Qubec, Canada. My Mother was a second born of five children, while my Dad was among the youngest of a family of 13. However, they were not to have more than the one child in their union which began May 30, 1923. I weighed 8+ pounds at birth, and was told that I resembled my Dad and the Parenteau family. I'm sorry to say that I was not blessed with either a brother or a sister. It was a lonely childhood. I was baptised as Marie Blanche Eleanor Parenteau. Marie all the baby girls in our French Catholic community were baptised as Marie or Mary. Uncle Leo had 4 girls and all of them have Marie as their baptismal name, which they used as their first name. So all of them with the same name! My second name, Blanche, was after my Fathers sister. Aunt Blanche was my godmother. (Funny thing is that she also stood up for Otis later, so she was his godmother as well.)
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My Mmre (Grandmother) Marie Delima Rothier (Turgeon) with my Mother, Marie Stella Elodia Turgeon and her brothers, Leo and the youngest Ral. He fell through the ice and drowned as a child and my Ppre never got over it, turning to alcohol for comfort. I think that was pretty much the end of the marriage.
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My Grandparents Joseph Parenteau with wife Malvina Lambert (Parenteau) with my Father as the small child on the floor at his Fathers knee. Included in this family were his brothers Hercule which was nicknamed Archie, Aunt Blanche was the baby, Aunt Rosanna and Aunt Leona were the older girls, Uncle Henry who was a butcher, and Claravina (who had canaries which my Dad took care of at one point). Several of the middle children died from what was probably the Spanish Flu which killed between 3 and 5 Million in Canada alone
My Mother were from St Didace Quebec, and My Father from Mt Carmel Quebec
Spanning over 75% of the width of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in which it resides, Mont-Carmel is the second largest subdivision within the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality and borders the United States at its southwest limit.
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My parents were married May 30, 1923 in Providence R.I. at our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church on Well Avenue, in Providence Rhode Island.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories GROWING UP

My Mother wanted the name Eleanor, which wasn't a French name, so it got put way back as my third name. However, I always went by Eleanor, named for an Irish girl she met during her pregnancy was so sweet that Mom said she promised to name a daughter after her if she had one. I never heard of another Eleanor except Eleanor Roosevelt and Eleanor Powell the tap dancer until I went to Florida. In our retirement years I found just about everybody was named Eleanor, much to my surprise. Unreal, people around my age! I guess it was just in my little French area growing up, that nobody had that name. My Father's name was Alfred Parenteau, he was known as Fred. My Mother's name was Elodia Turgeon Parenteau, she was known as Lydia. My parents were introduced by my Dad's younger sister Blanche. My Dad and his and Aunt Blanche had both come to Providence to live with their older sister Claravina as their Mother was already deceased in 1915 and their Father died in February 1919. My formal education was bilingual. We spoke French in our home as my maternal grandmother (Mmre) lived with us. All my children have French names but they didn't pass it along to the grandchildren. I guess that's because we didnt speak French at home. Once, after imitating another child Id heard, I sassed my Mother one day. Dad told me to stop and when I didnt, he hit me on the legs with a sewing machine strap. That was my one and only spanking. He needed only one glance at the strap which hung on our bathroom door to keep me in line. I was a rather sensitive child who cried easily so I guess discipline wasnt a big issue.
I attended Our Lady of the Lourdes parochial school for eight years. During that time we had moved to Oakland Beach to live in the house that Mmre (her Mother) had built. She was seriously ill with cancer and requested to die in her own house. My Dad and I traveled to Providence each weekday as there was no school at the beach. He would drop me off at Mothers aunt and uncles home (Laise & Louis Routier) on his way to work, to keep me in the same grade school. I remember enjoying tag, hide and seek, playing with jacks and marbles as a child. My favorite pastime as a child was coloring in many coloring books provided to keep me occupied. Later on, I tried my hand at drawing. I do better at copying a ready-made picture than sketching, but that too came with time and adult life. With no formal training it was strictly trial and error in giving pictures depth and perception. I always thought that I would like to study art and learn to paint properly. 10 | P a g e
After graduation Elementary School, I was sent to Jesus Mary Academy in Fall River Massachusetts. This was a boarding school where I disliked and resented having to live there. As soon as my parents moved back to Providence, I asked to go back to finish my last two years at St. Charles Borromeos. All 12 years were taught by the Jesus Mary nuns, who were a cloister order with French ties, so I had both languages during all 12 years. They were strict, but we learned a lot of extras besides the regular curriculum.
The Religious of Jesus Mary (French: Religieuses de JsusMarie), abbreviated as R.J.M., form a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women dedicated to the education and service of the poor. It was founded at Lyon, France, in October 1818, by Claudine, in religion, Mother Mary of St. Ignatius (Mre Marie de Saint Ignace) (1774-1837). She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1993; [1] her feast day is February 3.
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At home I was expected to keep my room clean. My parents were very strict about good school grades, and the friends I kept company with - boys included. My Father taught me the value of being short. His saying was, good things come in small packages. My Mother taught me the value of cleanliness. What I loved the most about my Father was his show of affection. What I love most about my Mother was her willingness to step in and give a helping hand wherever needed.
I remember being so lonely there at the beach during cold winter weather. As Christmas approached I said if I cant have a baby sister or brother, I wanted to have a puppy for Christmas. Well, my thoughtful Dad brought home a little black-and-white bundle of fur with a red bow tied around her neck. She was so small she fit in a coat pocket! I named her Beauty. Her favorite thing to do was to grab my sock in her mouth as I walked, and slide along the well waxed floor. She loved to cuddle and was just barely weaned, so Dad would sit up and rock her when she would whimper at night. Of course she wasnt potty trained. In Moms defense, her Mother had just died the previous month whom she had taken care of her for five years, and Im sure she was exhausted. But she broke a little girls heart by telling Dad either the dog had to go or she was leaving. After those few months we had both become attached, so Dad and I cried all the way to Providence the day he returned my Beauty to its previous owners!
I remember that my dear patient Dad curled my hair with a curling iron that had to be heated on the gas stove burner and tested on newspaper to make sure it wasnt too hot to burn the hair. While in elementary school, to give us practical experience writing letters, one teacher matched us up with pen pals. I chose an Italian Eleanor to write to who lives in California to write to. We wrote often as our lives changed from childhood into young adults. Amazingly enough, we still keep one another up to date with what has happened in our lives, writing at least at Christmas time. I was happy to send her one of the new family pictures that we had taken about the time of my 88th birthday, in October 2013.
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Looking back even farther than that I remember sitting on the fender of his car while he worked on the motor answering any curious little girl questions that might come up. It seemed he was entertaining me while my Mother did housework on her day off work. They were laborers Dad worked for Goodyear footwear making rubber boots (called goulashes or overshoes) which we wore over our shoes to protect them to keep them keep our feet dry in the snow back then. There were also shorter rubber protectors were worn over your shoes to keep your feet dry in the rain. Mom worked in the cotton mills (as her Mother had previously done) as a weaver and then later as a more valuable smash piercer who was called in to rejoin the broken ends when they broke and get weaving production going again as quickly as possible. The beach was fun during the summer months. We had lots of company and I got to go swimming every day, though I had no friends there since I went to school elsewhere.
Back then money was tight, so you wanted something special you had to wait until your birthday or Christmas for that one special item. I remember wanting a bike but Mom said no. Dad had an old boys bicycle with hard rubber wheels that he painted silver for me. It was so tall I had to be by something to get on and off the seat, like the porch, a step, a tall curb or large stone. As I grew a little and became more confident I could take a running start and fling my leg over this seat and reach the pedals. My Dad was a special man, big hearted, and one of a kind. He taught me as well as my kids to ride bike. He even saw that all his grandchildren had bikes. He bought bikes used bikes and painted them and put new handle grips on them, bells, etc. Refurbishing them, so that they always had nice looking bikes they could be proud of. My Mom came around a lot, and was pretty close to my children. That was something that I didn't have growing up; she just didn't show affection. I don't know if she had it in her, or didn't, but it sure didn't come out anyway. I would hear that she bragged about me to Jeanne, but she would never say anything like that to me. As a young child I wanted to become a dancer. My friend Jeannes Dad had taken me to first vaudeville shows and the tap dancers were my favorite. I taught myself to do a soft shoe and we had our local Nickerson House Center that gave lessons, but my dear Mmre (grandmother) and Mother were opposed, citing the bad reputation of show people, so I was outvoted.
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While at boarding school I started taking classical music Piano lessons. I also studied two more years during junior and senior years of high school. With my own piano purchased in the fall of 1939, I think my Mother hoped I would do more with it, but that was her dream, not mine. Another tidbit about my Dad came to me today as I was looking at a Christmas tree, I remember that the tree he brought home one year had a bare spot, which he proceeded to correct. The lower branches he cut from the bottom he forced into the holes he drilled on the trunk to cover bare spots, then wired them to the branches above. We always had a beautiful tree! Dad was the trimmer and was very particular about the balance of lights and ornaments, garland and tinsel. Under the tree was a white cotton batting for snow with a red and green picket fence around it. We also had an old-fashioned Santa that had belonged to my Mother's younger brother (who was drowned as a child).
Someone reminded me today of the fact that we were all given cod liver oil daily, like parents give their children vitamins today. It wasn't pleasant to take, but why complain? I was a pretty healthy child, though I had the usual childhood diseases, except chickenpox. I had my tonsils and extra-large adenoids removed at age of two. The adenoids were affecting my eyes. When I had abscesses under each arm cut out, the doctor came to the house gave me ether and on the kitchen table cut the large lumps out. The next Doctor episode was for impetigo, and then we consulted with a doctor at menstrual period time. I had stitches on my forehead when I fell on the ice once, and the next office visit was for blood tests when Otis and I got married. So in 20 years there were only half a dozen office visits! Jeanne Lareau was my closest friend from the second grade on through my entire life. She was from a family of six children. Oh how I loved the activities of their busy household! Her parents always made me feel like one of the family.
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Some of my earliest memories are of Mr. Lareau taking us to visit Santa at the downtown department store, counting noses as we got on the elevator to be sure nobody was left behind. There were days spent at the seashore as we as well at the state park. Then in later years we were introduced to more cultural activities such as museums, concerts and the opera. Now Jeanne liked the peace and quiet of my house so I guess we complement one other. We studied together and even double dated when that time arrived. We shared our thoughts, our dreams and our plans. What a precious gift friendship can be! Thank you God!
Rhode Island Bristol, Burrillville, CentralFalls, Coventry, Cumberland, Lincoln, Pawtucket, Providence, mill towns Slaters- ville, Valley Falls, West Warwick, Westerly, Woonsocket
Worsted /wstd/ is a type of yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead, a village in the English county of Norfolk. This village, together with North Walsham and Aylsham, became a manufacturing centre for yarn and cloth in the 12th century when pasture enclosure and liming rendered the East Anglian soil too rich for the older agrarian sheep breeds; and weavers from Flanders moved to Norfolk.[1][2] Worsted was made from the long-staple pasture wool from sheep breeds such as Teeswaters, Old Leicester Longwool and Romney Marsh. Pasture wool was not carded: instead it was washed, gilled and combed using heated long-tooth metal combs, oiled and spun. When woven, worsteds were scoured but not fulled.[3] Worsted wool fabric is typically used in the making of tailored garments such as suits, as opposed to woollen wool which is used for knitted items such as sweaters.
My Mother and Mmre worked in a cotton mill, where as Mr. Lareau worked in the Worsted Wool Mills where they did material for suits. Eventually all the cotton Mills went south, and the economy got really bad in Rhode Island. There were some families where they obviously had money, but most parents were Mill and shop workers.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Life as a Young Adult
World War II broke out while I was in high school on the on the tail end of a major depression that affected our country. There were ration books for many items like gasoline, meat, and shoes with many other items in short supply. When you would see a line forming, you would automatically get in it without knowing what was being offered. All of the rationed things included anything that they could conserve to use for the war efforts tires, cars, and appliances. All new production was on hold. It was a long time until the war was over too; almost 5 years! After high school graduation, I worked for a short time in office at a local mill. My Mother and Father wanted a better life for me than that of a laborer. I got a job in the mill office, but soon after my 18th birthday was able to I started with Metropolitan insurance company and remain there two and half years until I was married My teenage years were kept busy both roller-skating, ice skating, and dancing. As a girl my favorite song was Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. My favorite movies were Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. The favorite actor was Clark Gable. Rosemary Clooney, Shirley Temple, and Doris Day where all my favorites actresses. My favorite books were Little Woman and Little Men. My favorite radio program was Fibber McGee and Molly. I loved the summer season the best. My favorite holiday was Christmas and my favorite flower was a rose. I loved the color Kelly-green. My favorite food was pork pies at Christmas. The subject in school I appreciated was literature. Jeanne Lareau (Tenney) was my best friend from grade two until she died at age 87 in 2012 in New Jersey. As a young woman I graduated from high school in 1943. I worked as a bookkeeper which was amazing since I hated math. On weekends I skated or danced. The fashion rage at the time was platform shoes and I love them since I was short. I started to date at age 16.
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As a teenager, I recall the constant conflict between the uncertain child and the near adult who longed to be on her own and away from a controlling Mother. My Dad and I had a special relationship. He had a knack of complementing my efforts which always made me want to try harder. He inspired my efforts to become a good cook trial and error really, but to him whatever I cooked and in whatever condition was always delicious! During those years I taught myself to sew and made lots of clothes. As I enjoyed embroidering, I supplied my cedar chest with handmade items. Looking back on those days in Providence, I grew up in a community made up of people with so many nationalities, French, Irish, Polish, and Italian. Each group striving to preserve their own Mother tongue and customs. Yet, it seemed to me that there was a civil relationship but not many crossed the nationality boundaries as you mingled with and married your own kind. Until World War II that it has! During the war, the local boys were away at military. Being a port city, Providence was full of Navy personnel. Before meeting my sailor husband, I was in engaged to another sailor from the South East Ohio named John Edward Williams, however he died while serving in one carrier USS Franklin. When the news came about my fianc John, first we just knew that he was missing in action. His ship was hit by a Kamikaze Japanese plane for the second time. The first time I went to meet him in Ohio at his parents home in Jacksonville while they repaired the ship. He was burned at that time and had a premonition that he wasnt going to make it back if they sent him out on the same ship.
THE EARLY YEARS WITH OTIS

After we moved back to Providence (Olneyville Square) on Manton Avenue from Oakland Beach, we lived in a four tenement house. The only phone in the house was upstairs on the other side of the house above where Dads Sister Blanche, lived with her husband Eddie and their daughter Eileen. Mrs. Banville never minded taking occasional calls for us. My Parents Lydia and Fred with his sister Aunt Blanche, her husband Uncle Eddie and their daughter, Cousin Eileen (Walls) 17 | P a g e
As it so happened, when I answered a call one day, Otis was there. He was told hands-off shes engaged.
But, after some time, and with my fianc gone, again we met. I bumped into Otis again on a bus and a while later we started to date, until he was shipped out. Eventually we decided to marry when the war ended. Otis wrote extraordinarily beautiful love letters which I had kept and cherished until he found them a few years later during a move and destroyed them. Michelle and I laughed about one possible explanation being that he hadnt really written them to begin with His full name was Junior Otis Littman in his birth date was February 25, 1920 his heritage was German French and Irish and our first date was in 1945. His age when we met was 24 and I was 19. The Navy wouldnt accept Junior as his first name, (saying that his mother had made a mistake) so from that point on he went by Otis junior. However his legal name was registered as Junior and his family and friends in Versailles knew him as that. (Later in Dayton, he received nicknames like Odey, and Lippy.) He was stationed at the US Navy base almost 4 years during World War II. He went to radio school and was good at typing, so he became a radio man, receiving radio messages in Morse code and type them for his superiors. He was out at Quonset Point Naval airbase when they met. Funny we never had a typewriter at home after that. We used one at work to type up cards and letters, but that was as far as that goes. He would have been back from duty in Iceland (convoy duty) and then he went to England and across the Atlantic Ocean on the Queen Mary, back to Rhode Island. Whenever they could get shore leave they could see one another. Once he got assigned to a tug boat assignment (pulling targets for practice) as far as I can remember he didn't get to come home again, as they pulled into New York and he was discharged from there. Otis said he liked me because he thought I was attractive when we were dating. We like to go dancing and roller and ice-skating to big band music which was popular them. We became engaged on the rivers edge during a break time at a dance and our courtship lasted one year. My parents, they had to sign their permission because the legal age was 21, but the condition was that he had to convert to Catholicism first. The war ended and Otis was discharged December 1945 in New York and returned to Ohio to get his false teeth replaced. He had his teeth pulled while in the service due to pyorrhea and although he was fitted with a set of false teeth, they were lost overboard when he got seasick. He filed a claim to have them replaced, but the claim didnt catch up with him by the time he was discharged, so he hitched a ride on a truck to Rhode Island and arrived without any teeth. His veterans dental claim finally through, and he took religion classes with Father Belisle, was baptized, received first communion and confirmation a week before we married on May 11, 1946 at 8 AM. 18 | P a g e
Eleanor P Littman - Memories Quonset Point Naval Base
Naval Air Station Quonset Point was a United States Naval Base in Quonset Point,
Rhode Island that was deactivated in 1974. Next to NAS Quonset Point was Camp Endicott at Davisville, home of the Naval Construction Battalions known as the Seabees. Quonset Point also gave its name to the Quonset hut, a standardized temporary structure used by the U.S. military starting in World War II. Former US President Richard M. Nixon went through basic naval officer training at Quonset Point in 1942.[1] Commissioned on 12 July 1941, and encompassing what was once Camp Dyer, NAS Quonset Point was a major naval facility throughout World War II and well into the Cold War. Prior to its closure, it had been home to numerous aviation squadrons, primarily those landbased patrol squadrons operating the P-2 Neptune and carrier-based antisubmarine and airborne early warning squadrons operating the S-2 Tracker, the E-1 Tracer and various modified versions of the A-1 Skyraider. NAS Quonset Point was also the off-season home of Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6) during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, operating the LC-47 Skytrain, LP-2J Neptune, C-54 Skymaster, C-121 Constellation, and eventually the LC-130F and LC-130R Hercules, as well as a variety of helicopters. In addition to flying squadrons, the air station was also home to a major aircraft overhaul and repair (O & R) facility, later renamed Naval Air Rework Facility (NARF) Quonset Point. O & R Facilities, and their later incarnation as NARFs, are the predecessor of the present day Fleet Readiness Centers (FRCs), previously known as Naval Aviation Depots (NADEPs). Boasting a deepwater port, NAS Quonset Point was also homeport to several Essex class aircraft carriers, including the USS Essex (CV-9), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Lake Champlain (CV-39) and USS Tarawa (CV-40), as well as their respective carrier air groups (CAGs or CVSGs). In September 1945, Air Wing Eighteen became Air Wing Seven here. NAS Quonset Point was decommissioned on 28 June 1974 [2] as part of a series of defense cutbacks which resulted in a nation-wide reduction in bases following the end of the US engagement in Vietnam.
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Since the Navy's departure, a small military presence has remained in the form of Quonset Point Air National Guard Station, home to the 143d Airlift Wing (143 AW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained unit of the Rhode Island Air National Guard, operating the C-130J and C-130J-30 Hercules aircraft.[3] The Rhode Island Army National Guard also maintains an adjoining Army Aviation Support Facility for the 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, operating the UH-60 Black Hawk. Now known as Quonset State Airport (IATA: OQU, ICAO: KOQU), the former NAS Quonset Point is a public general aviation airport with tenant Air National Guard and Army National Guard flying activities, as well as an adjacent industrial park. There is no scheduled airline service. The airport lies within Class D airspace and has an operating non-federal air traffic control tower (closed on Mondays) with two active runways, Runway 5/23 and Runway 16/34. Quonset State Airport is one of six active airports operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation.
Jul 7, 1941: U.S. occupies Iceland
The neutral United States moves closer to war with Germany when U.S. forces land on Iceland to take over its garrisoning from the British. From thereon, the U.S. Navy had the responsibility of protecting convoys in the nearby sea routes from attack by German submarines. With Iceland and its nearby sea routes under U.S. protection, the British Royal Navy was freer to defend its embattled Mediterranean positions. The occupation of Iceland came less than a month after President Franklin D. Roosevelt froze all German and Italian assets in the United States and expelled the countries' diplomats in response to the German torpedoing of the American destroyer Robin Moor. Much of the North Atlantic was now in the American sphere, and U.S. warships patrolled the area for German submarines, notifying London of all enemy activity. The United States officially entered World War II after Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii in December 1941.
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We had the engagement picture (with him in his Naval uniform) was done because his family didn't know what I looked like as I hadn't met them yet.
Our Marriage
Otis and I were married at Our Lady of Lords Catholic Church in Providence Rhode Island, where I wore white satin gown with a train behind. We celebrated the wedding with a meal at noon followed by a reception. My most vivid memory of my wedding day is the dance at the reception first with my husband, second when my Father, then all of the male guests. There was a money shower held in our honor where people bought tickets to a dance with refreshments served and the proceeds went to the bride and groom. This was customary especially where several other showers had been held such as personal or housewares.
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The wedding day was a busy one. We got up early to be at the church for the ceremony at 8:00 a.m. Mr. Arpin, the funeral director, furnished a limo for the day. We stopped past the house for doughnuts and coffee and then went downtown to the photographer for formal pictures. Meanwhile, a cousin David Lamotaghe, who was a photographer for the newspaper, had taken shots at the house and at church, went home and developed the pictures and put in the album and presented the wedding gift to us at the reception. This was so thoughtful and my most memorable wedding gift. Next we went to the Howard Johnsons for a sit down dinner. This was followed by a reception complete with music. Afterwards we went home to change clothes, and with suitcase in hand, took off for our honeymoon. Our plans were less than elaborate since we had little money to spend. After a couple days we ended up at Jersey City, Connecticut at my cousin Terrys. She was pregnant and her first child having married the year before. We used my Dads car to get around. Now remember there had been no cars built during those four years of the war. As it so happened my parents friends, Carl and Delia De Magistris had a late model Buick and offered to drive us back to Ohio.
Welcome to Ohio
There was no superhighways back then, so it was a long trip with my parents, their friends and the two of us crowded into that car. The men all took turns driving and we did stop to sleep at a bed-and-breakfast tourist home along the way. I had at least met my Mother-in-law Mae at the wedding along with my sister-in-law Donna and her husband Barney, who had driven with a friend to Rhode Island. Donna and Barney had been married in January of that same year and were living in Versailles with Mother at home too as we were expected to do. This was the norm for returning Veterans after the war. I still had to meet his father, Otis W who lived in Dayton to work at Frigidaire and Marine city. He came home weekends, sometimes had to be called home that particular weekend to meet all of us.
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Moving into that house on Main Street in Versailles was a step back in time for me. The worst was the outside toilet! They still pumped water from the cistern for laundry and baths and shampooing. The laundry water was heated on the stove side tub and we took baths in a washtub in the back room, taking turns. I had no experience on my own with laundry, and had only helped Mom with the old time washer and wringer. One day while by myself, I stooped over too far and my long hair went into the wringer. Thrashing around, I tried to let myself out nobody else was home to scream to, so I had to find the right lever to release the roller so I could get loose. Well, at least they had an electric washer rather than using a scrub board! The nice part of two young couples living in the same house was that we played cards and ran around together. The boys taught Donna and me to play pinochle and euchre which they had played in the service. Mother worked at her uncles grocery store but the rest of us survived on the odd jobs we could pick up. I babysat, cleaned house and waited tables at the bar until the owner found out I, unlike the other three, wasnt 21 yet! We lived there for two years until we bought our first house; it was small but cozy.
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October came around we had saved enough money for me to take a bus home to Rhode Island. While I was gone, Otis started his apprenticeship at Frigidaire as an electrician. After his apprenticeship, Otis became an electrician on maintenance. We still did not have a car so we got a sleeping room in Dayton where Otis could get a ride to work. I took a bus to downtown Dayton and got off at the courthouse where I could see this sign for home store which later became Elder Beermans Department Store. I went in and applied for a job, and was hired on the spot to work a small counter which carried nail polish, lipstick and bath products. I worked through the holiday and we got to move to the furnished basement apartment way out Salem Avenue. It was next to Pantorium Cleaners where I got a job as an inspector after that. Meanwhile Donna and Barney had also moved out and were living in St. Mary, Ohio. So, when Mother got sick we were expected to go back to Versailles to care for her. At this point we got our first car, a Pontiac, from Otis W, but that that meant over 100 miles round-trip each day to get to work that sure wears a car out in a hurry! Barney was a lot of fun. He and Donna had gone together all through high school and had been close. Unfortunately, he had a drinking problem. We didnt know much about addictions back then, but his family were drinkers I think he may have inherited that tendency. He couldn't seem to hold down a job and even after passing the Lawyers bar exams he didn't go into law per se. He worked for an insurance company in Pennsylvania as an insurance adjuster. He lost his job there from over drinking. I believe and that's when they went to Toledo. He went to work for the railroad I seem to remember. When we got to move back to Dayton, we borrowed money from the two grand parents to buy a little one bedroom furnished house where we lived there for four years. I went back to work at the Metropolitan life insurance company doing the same clerical work I did in Providence. I worked until I was pregnant for the first time, and then I was a stay-at-home Mom for years. While we lived in the little house in North Dayton, and we saved enough money not only to pay back the money we borrowed but also were able to buy a Buick Special. Then, we were then able to buy a three bedroom home in West Carrollton. Vacations were out of the question since vacation pay always came in April and that was property tax time. As a wife I try to be a good cook nothing fancy or gourmet, but I kept the house clean and did some sewing. All this time I agonized over not getting pregnant. We had both seen doctors about it, even Otis took shots to boost sperm count. We about decided that adoption was the answer, when in 1950 I quit work and went to Rhode Island for Thanksgiving. It was a memorable visit, as a hurricane hit while we were in Rhode Island and there was a record blizzard in Ohio!
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THE LONG AWAITED BLESSING OF A LARGE FAMILY
David and Richard were born at St. Elisabeth Hospital and the twins, Michelle and Marc were born at Miami Valley, while the rest of the children at Good Samaritan Hospital. We lived in West Carrollton then on Hudson Avenue in North Dayton, and finally on Chalfonte Drive in Beavercreek. Everyone thought the babies resembled me. My children show talents the boys in carpentry, Denise and Michelle with sewing and art and Renee and Annette in creative writing. I was very proud that I was your Mother, and I have always loved all my children equally. I have enjoyed seeing how well adjusted and responsible adults (and parents) they have become. During those years, stretching a dollar to pay for doctors dentists bills etc. as well as feed a hungry bunch, we felt Gods hand sending hand-me-down clothes our way both for the boys and the girls in sizes we could use. I watched for sales to stock up on canned goods, meats that went on sale, and we had a freezer full of day-old bread. I learned how to cook pots full of filling stews, soups, homemade noodles and pot pie. Usually we had fried chicken or roast on Sunday to add a little variety. Potatoes and bread helped fill empty stomachs. I did bake in those days so we had desserts after a filling meal. As Otis was working, I used to stay up at night painting walls, mending clothes, and polishing shoes. My Mother was worried about me drinking too much coffee, so I asked the doctor. He asked, Do you sleep at night? When I told him, Yes as soon as my head hits the pillow. He said that Obviously you need it then. After Id been burning the midnight oil and needed to have a rest, especially when I was pregnant, I would get my kids to lie with their heads in each corner away from one another, and at least rest. If they are all facing different directions they couldnt play and would perhaps go to sleep. Actually, I found the girls were easier to handle in general. The boys tended to squabble and were hard on their clothes and the home furnishings. Of course I hadnt had much experience with handling boys either, which didnt help.
David Paul
Finally, on August 21, 1951 precious little David arrived on the scene. I had a hard pregnancy couldnt hold down food almost the entire time so he was very thin after delivery. I nursed him until I found myself pregnant again. He doubled his birth weight in six weeks; Dr. Moore said I must be feeding him pure cream! By the time David was two he talked very plainly and was our question box as I think I must have been. He had to know where everything came from. Like a vegetable, if it grew in the ground or on a plant. What animal our meat came from. Where money came from to buy these food items. Where the people Daddy works with get the money to pay Daddy and on and on Of course the pregnancy for the twins cause many questions that require creative answers that a two-year-old could accept.
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He had surgery under his eyes before he was 18 months old to tighten the muscles and get the long lashes out at his eyes. Then was hospitalized again for severe case of the croup at 27 months
Richard Kim
I wasnt so sick with the next pregnancy, mostly just in the morning. Richard Kim arrived on the scene September 4, 1952 he was a good baby who slept a lot and didnt demand constant attention like David did. David, who was talking quite plainly but not in sentences yet couldnt say brother, so he dubbed Richard Kim by his middle name which stuck with him all his life. We went back to Rhode Island to see Mom and Dad in May 1953 with my two babies, and lo and behold, I got home and found that I was pregnant again!
Wilms' tumor, Wilms tumor (/vlmz/), or nephroblastoma is cancer of

the kidneys that typically occurs in children, rarely in adults.[1] It is named after Dr Max Wilms, the German surgeon (18671918) who first described it.[2] Approximately 500 cases are diagnosed in the U.S. annually. The majority (75%) occur in otherwise normal children; a minority (25%) are associated with other developmental abnormalities. It is highly responsive to treatment, with about 90% of patients surviving at least five years.
We had a pediatrician then, (Dr. Herbert R Moore) who insisted we keep regular checkups and shots up to date. When Kim had been in to see the doctor in December when he was due for his 18 month checkup in March, a lump was detected in his right side during that routine checkup. We were sent to an urologist for a further tests. They shot dye into his veins and found a growth in his kidney. He was hospitalized immediately for further tests and removal of the kidney and two lower ribs. The Wilms tumor was as large as a grapefruit. After a week in the hospital after surgery they scheduled him for 24 x-ray treatments as an outpatient.
Dad would drive us to the hospital where they would insert a suppository to knock Kim out for the treatment. Id walk the halls with him in my arms until he would fall asleep But he would fight sleep and even grunt out the suppository and then we would have to start all over again. After his treatment Kim was very sick from the radiation, He would get hungry and try to eat but little stay down he even had trouble with keeping his medication down. In the midst of this we move from West Carrollton to Hudson Avenue in Dayton.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Michelle Adrienne and Marc Adrian

Mom had come to Ohio to help out when each of the babies when they were born. Then my Dad found himself out of work and fall of 1953 so they came to Ohio to visit and found a job at Standard Register that November, just when we found out by x-ray that the expected baby was twins. I had suspected it since early the pregnancy but the doctor pooh-poohed me. The twins weighed in at 514 and 62 born two minutes apart with Michelle paving the way. The next few months were a bit hectic with four little ones to feed and keep dry. I wash diapers twice a day so it seemed that I was always folding them. While my Mom and Dad were there when the twins arrived in January 3, 1954. They bought the house where we now live in North Dayton, on Briarcliff Drive. Dad started work, and Mom took off for Rhode Island to go back and pack to move.
As Kim went through his health issues, my Mom was taking care of David as well as fourmonth-old twins which I was nursing. Michelle would take a supplemental bottle but Marc refused, so I had to wean them. I remember spending a miserable Mothers Day trying to dry up my milk supply. The twins were easy to potty train and they were competitive and always ready to outdo the other. Michelle was voicing words but Mark said or attempted very little until the day he got mad and came out with the sentence that was my shoe! He tended to have Michelle talk for him until we separated them in school. Later, he went through the I hate girls stage, but he got over that eventually. All of a sudden I realized that they were doing something new. New milestones of achievement like crawling Michelle caught on all fours and worked together first, with Mark following behind on his on a shoveling belly crawl.
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Hudson Avenue
The house had four bedrooms with storage in the attic and a large room we converted into a play room complete with blackboard, shelves for toys, child size picnic bench and a merry-goround which they could ride but needed to be pushed around. This place was on the bus line so I could get more mobile which was an added plus. Although we had more room in the new location, lots of household energy went into that house, remodeling, tearing off old wallpaper and painting. The only drawback to my being so busy was that the twins were growing up fast and Id missed lot of their firsts. When we were living on Hudson Avenue off Main Street in North Dayton, we had a Dalmatian. (That was the only dog we had until Kim brought home Willie much later in Beavercreek). It kept knocking the kids down playing too rough, and breaking the lead and running off, so we found it another home. A Dalmatian needs room to run, and was a big dog in a for a little city lot. There was a big pear tree in the backyard of Hudson Avenue, as well as a plum tree that always had lots of butterflies. David was trying to climb over the fence to the neighbors (Dad had cut some branches down on an angle instead of cutting straight across) and as he slid down he cut his leg and had to go for stitches. 28 | P a g e

We bought a metal merry-go round had been in the playroom that had to be pushed. We moved it outside so the kids could use it there. They seemed to really enjoy it, but unfortunately, it didn't weather too well once it got outside and got rusty on the tracks.
Friends
Felix Marshalls wife (the pharmacist who practiced on Far Hills Avenue) was related to the family somehow cousin, I believe, anyway, that's how I met them. They split up and Felix remarried. His second wife had a baby about the time that I was in the middle of having my children. I laugh, as she went to the doctor and asked him if there was something wrong with her little guy because he was so little, there must be something wrong with him ... not like the Littman boys whom she had seen during a diapers changed! We used to play cards with them I remember, but somehow we lost track of them. I don't know whatever became of them. Maybe it was when we moved out to Beavercreek. I can remember them on Hudson before we moved out there. Another memory from a bit earlier, is of Millie and Bill Morrison the florist, we met when we bought the first house up by the Sanitarium way up North Main Street, and they lived down the street from us and had their first two children, who were really little. I was so interested in kids, and that was the attraction at first I think. I got to talking to the kids and then she had Ricky and I got to taking care of him when it would be busy times like at Easter when she would have to help him in the flower shop. I took over with him, and I think I even kept him over the holiday time, she had brought over an old fashioned cradle for me to lay him in (he was just little then). At one time I had a picture of him with a dog in the back of our house in West Carrolton.
An Intermediate Move
Next memory was when we sold the house on Hudson to build a house in Beavercreek. A steel strike slowed the wheels of progress in building this home and we had to make and an intermediate move to Cedarwood Drive (the green house) with most of our things packed away in the garage. During that time Kim fell and broke his leg and had to have surgery to remove a growth in the bone and he had a cast from just toes to his thigh. He kept breaking the heel of the cast as he would fling his leg with a heavy cast and land on that heel. They finally settled on a walking cast and it was he was in it from July until November. At that time he had his surgery, Otis and buddies from work were wiring the new house. My parents and Otiss Father and Osa (his second wife) were all on vacation. I didnt drive yet and was pregnant for Renee. I ended up in the hospital just as school was to begin with what they called the flu. I spent three days in isolation and slept around the clock.
Chalfonte Drive
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I got my drivers license after we got to Beavercreek, with my neighbor Jean Mayfield going out practicing with me.
Denise Danielle
Now bits and pieces about Denise. She was way late getting here and my first big baby over 8 pounds. I waited with two suitcases packed for the twins to go to Mmre and Ppres, while Kim and David were going to Littman grandparents. She arrived July 24, 1957 she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck and was ink blue! Despite her size was placed in an incubator. You could tell she was older than the rest of the nursery. She had allowed her cry than other newborns. She would raise her head to look around and scream to be picked up. When I got her home I would let her nurse until she had her fill and she slept on and on. When she was six months old, I got Asian flu and Mom took her home to babysit. While there, she went directly from nursing to drinking her milk out of a shot glass bypassing the bottle stage. I remember I would sit her on the counter while I was cooking but had to watch her or shed have her hands in the butter dish. Later on she took to eat my onion bulbs. She had imaginary friends and when out of sight we would hear her talking to them. She was rather shy and very quiet.
Renee Andrea
Renee Andrea was born on October 15, 1959. The twins were in private kindergarten and David and Kim (cast and all) took the school bus to Ascension school. There was no public school bus then so we had to pay St. Johns transportation for the service. When we asked Denise about her pretty baby sister said Shes okay, but when are you going to take her back? Renee was a headstrong child. She had a hard time cutting her teeth and was fussy. She loved books and when she learned to crawl would head for the bookcase, shaking her head and saying no, no, no but then grabbing the encyclopedia anyway. Then one day she grabbed a crayon and wrote on the wall. When made to scrub it off, she crawled under the dining table and chairs and wrote under them thinking she was getting away with it there! Shes the only one who ventured to cut her hair right up to her forehead and trimmed her eye lashes at the same time. She love to dress up and get her hair combed She had strawberry blonde curls at this time and would prance before her Daddy saying, Arent I a living doll? Of course she had her Daddy wrapped around her finger She tried getting away with not minding Mom by saying, but my Daddy says, which didnt work for her when Mother was in charge. She learned to write Otis from label on his work clothes before she could write her own name; and then claim her name was Otis Renee. Ive been remembering another incident when my Mom and Dad had to be called in to lend a helping hand. Renee was in private kindergarten, I picked up a morning and afternoon session of students. Annette was the mascot when I would help out in class by playing piano and doing odds and ends. 30 | P a g e
Eleanor P Littman - Memories Intussusception in Children

Intussusception is a condition where part of the intestine (bowel) folds into itself like a telescope. The telescoping may block the bowel and its blood supply, which can result in damage to the bowel. Intussusception often involves both small and large bowels. It is the most common cause of bowel obstruction (blockage) in children.
One day after kindergarten I took Renee to have her picture taken, then home for a nap. She woke up with blotches that look like bruises all over her arms and legs. She was hospitalized immediately when Dr. Moore saw her. They did all kinds of tests and the second night at 11:30 they took her to surgery. She had to have 3 feet of her small intestines removed. The intestine had gone into spasm and telescoped causing a blockage and gangrene set in.
They claimed it was an allergic reaction called Schoenlein Purpura which caused the problem she had to be put on cortisone and stop the bleeding in the bowel stomach and bladder. Kettering Hospital had just opened their pediatric ward where Moms were encouraged to room in. It was a good thing, as Renee dreaded those round-the-clock shots but it helped to hang onto her Mommy. We spent 21 days at the hospital while my Mother took over the care of the remaining six children. God knew what he was doing when my Dad was out of work and they moved to Ohio!
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is a form of blood vessel inflammation

or vasculitis. There are many different conditions that feature vasculitis. Each of the forms of vasculitis tends to involve certain characteristic blood vessels. HSP affects the small vessels called capillaries in the skin and frequently the kidneys. HSP results in a purplish skin rash (most prominent over the buttocks and behind the lower extremities) associated with joint inflammation (arthritis) and sometimes cramping pain in the abdomen. Henoch-Schonlein purpura is also referred to as anaphylactoid purpura.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories School Days

The older four children attended Ascension school and then to Beavercreek public system. While the kids were at Ascension School, there was no cafeteria so lunches had to be packed every night
Ascension Parish and Elementary School

2001 Woodman Drive + Kettering OH + 45420 + (937) 254-5411 In June of 1955, Father Arnold F. Witzman received a call from Archbishop Karl J. Alter to move from Cincinnati to Dayton to organize a new parish which came to be known as The Church of the Ascension. Fr. Witzmans mission was to establish a school, so in 1956 a school building was dedicated and for the first six years served as a church also. In 1960 an addition of 6 classrooms was made to the north end of the school building. Notre Dame Sisters served as the first teachers in the school. School Enrollment reached as many as 1000 students, with over 50 students in each classroom through the 60s and 70s. Mr. Walter R. Miller served as principal from 1970-1982 during the transition from a largely religious staff to a lay staff. Father Witzman retired in 1980 to become Pastor Emeritus and was joined by Father Edward Rudemiller (Father Rudy), who began a 12 year tenure as pastor.
Annette Yvonne
I worked at Elder Beermans on Smithville as part-time Christmas help. They kept me the following year part-time until inventory when I was couple of months from having Annette Yvonne on March 6, 1863. The first three months of her life were spent holding and rocking her. She had a spastic stomach where milk jutted out of her so that we had to both needed to change our cloths completely. She was miserable most of the time and slept against my belly heat while I rocked her. Then at three months old it all past and her thumb when into her mouth. She took to a little walker and was the best baby you could ever want. When she was a little over four, I went to work full-time at Kmart in on Woodman Drive. It was a brand-new store so all the merchandise had to be tagged and when shelves were set up, stocked them according to the department. I worked on registers for the grand opening as well as stocking shelves as they were emptied. I was singled out to be the one to handle damaged good claims and later moved trained as receiving clerk since I worked well without supervision. I spent 10 years of my life there. I had surgery during that time as I had a fibroid the size of a grapefruit pressing into my spine. I remembered one Christmas when Annette was still very young and believed in Santa, the excitement and joy she brought to each one of us as one by one the gifts were open. She would run to each person opening their gift, her little fingers just itching to help so that she could see 32 | P a g e

what was inside. It didnt matter that the gift wasnt hers, she showed the same enthusiasm for everyones presents. She remained a sweet loving little girl who was sensitive and easily disciplined. I just saw a commercial that jogged my memory again. In it the Father is rocking his little boy in a porch swing telling him that his Mother did the same when he was a little boy and it made him feel better. The little boy said he will make a pretty good Mommy. When I went to work, I worked days and Otis worked third shift. I kept Annette up night so that she would sleep in late with her Daddy. She would wake him with calling him my other Mommy to get her something to eat. Everyone else was at school. Annette was just a toddler when I dyed my hair. Otis said that I looked more like the kids Grandmother than their Mother, and I didn't want to dye it dark as I had seen too many older women that looked so hard, so I died it platinum blonde. I taught Michelle as the oldest girl to help out with touch-ups between visits to the salon. That was before it was fashionable to have dark roots.
Busy Family Life

Another memory scene is of our Saturday night ritual when the children were all small. I would shampoo hair and bath two at a time. As soon as turns were done I would wrapped the finished ones in towels and send them to their Father to finish drying off and put on pajamas. Then ears were cleaned and finger and toenails cut - and then on to the next child in an assembly line. Saturday night was treat night. Its the only time we had pop and popcorn. Once a while we had a Chef Boyardee pizza from a mix and sometimes we have ice cream and made farmers sodas or ice cream floats. As long as I was on a bus line I was alright. So, it wasn't until we moved to Beavercreek that I had to learn to drive.
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I was pretty daring as far as getting off one bus line and transferring onto another one. When Dr. Moore suggested I put Michelle in dance lessons as a treatment for her pigeon toes. I had to take two busses one into downtown and then transfer off into Kettering to the teacher that had taught Wendy, Rita Hoffler. Michelle took dance lessons from Cousin Wendy (Dads cousin Bob Streibs daughter) first at home and that her studio in Centerville. Michelle was the smallest in the senior line for a long time. Once Wendy had her studio, the other three girls started lessons too. I sewed costumes to help pay for lessons as well as painting scenery for recitals. A teacher in Centerville had just given up her studio and so they rented it and got her started in business, inheriting some of her students. Wendy had been a student teacher for her, so Wendy got a senior line together right away as a form of advertisement and the hula line was available for parties. David played peewee football in the seventh and eighth grade while Kim and Mark played soccer
Holidays
At Christmas time I spent hours making, icing and decorating fancy cookies. Also spritz cookies that were pressed from a tube with a screw top and different tips. My Dad said he wondered why I spent so much time baking them. I said, Dad, I want them to remember the cookies I made instead of the dust bunnies under the beds. I would share a Sears Catalogue with all the kids and ask them to find something that they liked that was within a certain price range. Most of the time, we were able to grant that one gift. It wasnt much, but we were able to find other things that you needed like socks and underwear to give everyone something else to open. My parents gave us money and we always spent it on our children. We didnt exchange gifts ourselves never did. I would have liked to do more, but we did all we could in love and for the most part, it was a happy time. 34 | P a g e

We always had fresh new outfits for Easter Sunday. After Mass we would drive out to my parents house where my Dad hid real Easter eggs for the kids to find in their big backyard. He got pretty good at hiding the eggs and there were always candy treats and a nice meal together.
Vacations
Our only vacations before I started to work was a trip with my parents and the first five children to Rhode Island for my cousin Eileens (and Freddys) wedding. Then there was a trip to Canada with the first three girls and my parents for my cousins wedding (the boys staying with the other grandparents). Otis vacation pay had always come at property tax time, so we would spend it on the taxes rather than on vacations. Once we had little extra vacation pay we traveled more. When Renee was a baby and we traveled, I saw that Sears Department Store had disposable diapers in their catalogue... something new that sounded like it was just the thing, so I didn't have to take the old dirty diapers around with me. It was different. On one trip to Rhode Island, Marc was having trouble breathing after a bee sting hed gotten along the way. We had to take him to the Emergency Room. Then that same trip, hed gotten a sun burn so badly that he had big blisters on his shoulders. We went to Rhode Island when Denise was just a baby, too. Renee picked up an accent where ever she was she stayed with Cousin Terry and Normans place in Connecticut. One year Mrs. White (a neighbor who had boys the same age) kept an eye on the boys while we went to Canada we wouldn't have had enough room in Ppre's car. We went to one of my cousins weddings up there. He bought a carrier to put suitcases on the roof so there would be enough room. Then, after my Mom died, we took Dad and went to Quebec Canada and visited his older sister, Leona who spoke only French. We also saw her daughter Louiselle, and her children, two sons, and two daughters Claire and Lucy (who was deaf) who lived nearby.
Medical Bills
We had the big issues with Kims cancer, and Renees bowel obstruction, but we had our fill of other little injuries along the way, as you can imagine.
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When Kim fell and broke his leg, he went to first grade with a cast on his leg clear up to his hip. He would swing it and run breaking the cast a couple of times before they put a rubber tipped heal on the bottom making it a walking cast. I remember how rotten it smelled when they finally took the cast off his leg, how the skin was dried out and peeling. In the middle grades, David fell out of a tree, and broke his arm so everyone was banned from climbing trees. But as it was a favorite pastime they snuck and one of the boys dropped a board on Michelle's head and split it open requiring stitches. Denise cut her wrist on the crayon coffee can that lost its protective rim, and her foot cut in the creek on broken glass. We went to the Emergency Room a lot the boys in particular. Doctor Moore knew if I called it was really something and he would meet us in the emergency room. The insurance wasn't great, so we would always have bills from the hospitals. Even having babies we had the anesthesiologist bills, surgeries, etc. There was a lot of doctor bills, from all the annual checkups for doctors, dentists and eye doctors. One whole paycheck would go to pay house payment and whatever groceries we could get. One paycheck would be doctor bills and the other would be household utilities. Something every paycheck and I made due with whatever groceries were on sale.
Mmre and Ppre

We had to count on both Mom and Dad during many emergencies starting with the twins arrival, Kims battle with cancer, runs to the hospital for stitches etc. etc. Dont know what I would have done without them. The kids loved to go to my parents especially when only one or two went at a time. It was probably pretty plain, as Ppre was still working. They would get milk, cheese and butter from a specialty store, and the A&P for everything else. Mmre didn't go with him, but Ppre would run and get whatever she wanted. Dad always did the running and shopping. I don't think Mom even went Christmas shopping or anything as far as I can remember. In Providence, Mom could walk down to the butcher shop and the little square to get groceries, but once they came to Ohio, I don't remember her going. She didn't drive and of course the gas had been rationed during the war, so I didn't get a chance to learn to drive when I was of age. A different generation and a different time. Ppre would take you to playgrounds and patiently watch as you ran off your energy, and Mmre would play games with you, like Parcheesi, checkers and cards.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories The Teen Years

The thing I remember the most about the teen years was that they were hectic and worrisome. The only way I kept my sanity was to tell God, youre turn to keep your eyes on things, Ive done my part to the best of my ability. I dreaded the teen years and rightfully so. Possibly it was magnified with so many going through those unsettled teen years at the same time. David and Renee were my adventuring run-away childrenlots of tears and worry, worry, worry! Then came the weddings in a bunch. In hindsight, they were much too young to be married and standards were different. Sadly, the marriages didnt last. David married in Florida, Mark an outdoor wedding, Michelle and Denise at church. I spent many hours burning the oil at midnight sewing the wedding dresses for the rest of the wedding party with the younger sisters as bridesmaids and flower girl, since I was working full-time during that period.
Always Room for One More

There was always room for friends and those who needed a little break from their home troubles. Davids friend Larry Shackleford was one of the boys who stayed for some time with us, in the basement. Cousin Mike Bader (Aunt Donnas son) was in the Air Force and stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I remember being the one driving when we would sometimes stop at the neighborhood convenient store/butcher shop Riffles, so I don't think he came every night; perhaps just the weekend. We made a trip for Jeans shower up to Toledo and it snowed like crazy. It was snowing so hard we couldn't see our way at all you just felt as though you were feeling your way along the road. It was one time I did not enjoy driving. It took us forever to get home and Mike was late getting back for duty at the base. As the weather was bad he was not reprimanded. Later, after he and Jean were married they rented our across the street neighbor, the Mayfield's house in North Dayton. Mike and Jean were married 1972-06-06, and their daughter Joy was born 1973-09-21 in Toledo, Ohio. A friend of Annette's stayed with us as well for some time, as she was having trouble at home so she stayed until she got married While Dad tended bar at the 40/8 and then took on a courier job picking up mail and taking it to businesses and waiting for me to retire. He met Kelly, the owner of the courier businesss daughter who was having a troubled relationship with her Mother. She came to stay at our house for a time as well.
OTIS
Otis would be happy with a carton of cigarettes, a six pack of beer and a tank full of gas to get back and forth to work, that was his requirements for the week and he would just say, make it stretch. He learned to eat veggies only after he had to be a positive example for the children. He was a real reader and would swap paperback books at work. Once he went into uniforms as it was cheaper than cleaning and upkeep. That was how Renee learned to spell Otis looking at his embroidered name! Once he was so aggravated that they hadnt sewn on a button that he cut all around it so they had to do more extensive repairs including the button. 37 | P a g e

He may not have known how to deal with seven children, but he made sure you had a roof over your heads, and food in your stomachs. As a young man Otis played the drums and combo with his sister Donna at the piano and Barney at the guitar performing in the Versailles area. I think Otis would have wanted you to know this is about himself. That he had three uncles but only two cousins since Lloyd never married and Norbert and Georgia were never blessed with children. Only Vearl and Irene had two children, a boy named Allan and a girl named Janet. He had only one sister, Donna Mae and although 4 1/2 years apart in age, they were closer as friends as they grew up. Fact is, that when stationed in Iceland there was nothing to spend his money on, so on his first leave home he spent that money to buy his sister a fur coat. He was a joke sharer and storyteller, especially at an older age, to anyone who would listen. He loved to play cards euchre, canasta, crib and pinochle. His knees gave out for dancing. He loved assembling jigsaw puzzles. He loved spending his winter in Florida after he retired from Frigidaire. So after getting out of the service, the American Legion drum and bugle corps caught his attention because he really enjoyed marching and playing. Later we got involved with the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and then the more elite club, the 40/8. Drum corps can trace their origins to the many Veterans of Foreign Wars ("VFW") and American Legion ("AL") meeting halls, where veterans met and formed musical ensembles to entertain their communities.[2] In addition to VFW- and AL-sponsored corps, other drum corps were founded by Boy Scouts of America troops (such as the corps that would become the modern-day corps: the Racine Scouts, The Cavaliers and the Madison Scouts), Elks lodges, YMCAs, the Catholic Youth Organization, Police Athletic Leagues (such as would found the Bluecoats), fire fighter organizations, and local businesses, as well as Churches, grammar schools, high schools and colleges. By far, Church-sponsored organizations predominated the east-coast drum corps circuits. Rivalries between corps led to a shift towards competition and the AL and VFW both ran successful competition circuits through the late 1960s and early 1970s. With improved national transportation trends by the 1960s, drum and bugle corps proliferated, both in the sheer numbers of both new and established corps across North America, in the many competitions held then, and in the stadium attendance counts.
He was elected to local and state offices and spent two years as Chef de Gar. There was always lots of fun with the receptions and party rooms. We got very close to a lot of people as we traveled around to the State and National conventions together. Whitey and Katherine, Bob and Edna were just a few of the good friends we had fun with. We would dress up for particular night parties, most memorable was dressing like little kids, in sheets for toga, etc. 38 | P a g e
For years Otis was a volunteer fireman in Beavercreek, despite working third shift. We enjoyed many social functions they put on including Christmas parties, and annual outings to Lesourdsville Amusement Park (later called Kings Island)
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Social Time
The organization (also known as "La Socit") can trace its roots back to 1920, when Joseph W. Breen and 15 other members of the American Legion, who were veterans of World War I, came together and founded it as an honor society for certain Legion members. The title "40&8" comes from the box cars that were used to transport troops to the front in France. Each car had the emblem 40/8 stenciled on the sides, which meant that it could carry 40 men or 8 horses. These cars were known as forty-and-eights. They were seen by the troops as a miserable way to travel, and the new organization was thus called the 40&8 in an attempt to make some light of the common misery they had all shared. In 1929 it was described as "the fun-making organization of the American Legion."[1] In 1959 the 40&8 became independent of the American Legion, although still required membership in the American Legion. In 2008 the 40&8 dropped the membership requirement in the American Legion.[2]
We were also involved with card playing. I joined a group through Gerri Streib (she had delivered Wendy the same time as one of the other card members). I still enjoy when we can get together and play pinochle with Mary, Rita, and Cece. Years ago we used to get together with the husbands as well. While we played penny-ante, the buys were big spenders playing in the basement for a nickel or a dime per round.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories RETIREMENT

In 1972, while Dad was still working he decided that he wanted to purchase a motor home and travel. I said that it was okay as long as it was paid off before retirement, and it was the only way I would camp. At work, through the Credit Union, Dad had payments taken out every pay and it was indeed paid for by his retirement. Otis retired from Frigidaire after 30 years at age 55 (1976). I worked until July 1977 after I got my 10 years in for pension at K-Mart. While he was waiting for me to retire he took the boys fishing, and we went to visit the kids who lived out of state. We visited David in Texas, Marc in California with Denise, Renee and Annette. This was Ppres last trip with us before he died. We helped David move from Texas to West Virginia in the motorhome, bird cage and all. There were conventions in Arizona and Dixie Conventions in the Southern States. In all we had been in all States except North Dakota (as someone had told us it wasnt worth the detour). There were always sightseeing trips for the wives of the officers planned at the conventions so I actually saw a lot more of the sights than Otis did. Dad didnt like planes, in Iceland during the war he had to be in the glass front watching for enemy submarines. He was too seasick in the Navy to ever want to go on a ship again, so he didnt even want to go on a cruise. So, he wasnt a daredevil or very adventurous, but enjoyed his retirement and the trips to Florida. We did fly one time we went to California and had a very turbulent landing, and then a sandstorm so bad that we had to stop and let it finish blowing. His cousin (Uncle) Bob Streib had come to pick us up. I cant remember if it was a Convention or Marcs being in an accident or something as to why Dad had gone on a plane. After my Father died, his house was rented first by Mark who came from California until he built the house in Union where he lived with Karen, Brandy and Ryan. When Marc moved out, Denise moved in until they rented across the street, in the old neighbor Dolls house. That made room for Otis and I to move into the house I inherited from my parents on Briarcliff Drive, when Annette and Bob bought the house we built in Beavercreek. 41 | P a g e
Our Time to Travel

We went to Washington State, Oregon, traveled to the Alberta, and another year to see the Worlds Fair in Vancouver, and met up with Michelle, Vivian and Jen at the Merchants in Vernon.
We drove to Mt Rushmore and to see the Crazy Horse monument planning to be built.
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By piecing together info from several photo albums, we came up with the following timeline: Year: 1973 1974 Year: 1975 Events: Grandpa Printz died Events: Projects: Grandchildren: Brandy born Jeremy born Grandchildren: Aaron born Christopher Ryan born Jennifer born Amber born
Projects:
1976 1977
1978 1979 1980
Otis Retired Ppre died Denise & Ronnie married Eleanor Retired Barney Bader died Grandma Printz died Secretary for 40/8 Caboose Renee & Don married Peoria IL Great Lakes promenades President for 40/8 Caboose Michelle & Vivian married Treasurer for 40/8 Caboose
Melissa born
1981
1982
Rhonda born
1983 1984
Vice President for 40/8 Caboose Erie Convention Pennsylvania Great Lakes promenades Treasurer for 40/8 Caboose Osa Littman died Treasurer for 40/8 Caboose Annette & Bob married
1985
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Robby born

1987 Dresden plate quilt assorted birds embroidered quilt
1988
Virginia Beach Convention
1989
Baton Rouge Convention
double wedding ring triangles in a square going into the corners quilt lone star for Mark and the Bible scenes quilt for Denise Tari born
1990 1991
St. Louis Convention for the second time San Diego Convention Louisville Convention Lacrosse Wisconsin Convention Great Lakes promenades Knoxville convention
chicken scratch quilt king-size quilt on my bed log cabin quilt
1992
1993
Crazy cats quilts for Renee
1994 1995 1996
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
50th Wedding Anniversary George & Francie married Brandy & Rob married
Grand chef reception Dick Bartley
David & Karen married Kim died Jeremy & Jacinta married
Grand chef reception -Chuck McGraw Grand chef reception - Wolfe Grand chef reception - Bigler Grand chef reception -Lowell Grand chef reception - Bigelow
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2002 2003 Otis died Sandra & Tim married
Whenever there were hills, we would be slower, and people would cut us off trying to get around us. Upon returning to Ohio, the last year, while the motor home was parked in the back yard, we discovered a toad that had hitched a ride in the bumper. We were excited to show Denises kids, but they were too afraid of it to share our enthusiasm. After the camper was sold, we rented a one bedroom place in Florida. One year some cousins came from Canada to visit, and we both had the flu, the place was a mess, and all we had to share was a studio couch. Brandy used to come down pretty regularly with her children. We were always amazed how much gear she had with her. Times had changed that much, and she needed car seats and playpens, and toys. It was always nice to have her visit. Our connection with Joe and Loretta began as they had purchased a motor home thinking their son was going to stay but didnt, so a place was available on Oyster Bay Lane. We rented it year round so that we could avoid the high season rates and moving all of our possessions. We rented a 5th wheel one year in Florida, and then moved up to a nice double wide trailer. The rent was higher, but the washer and dryer were there and there was a nice second bedroom/TV room with studio couch. We had lots of visitors that year. Marc came down while Kim and Patti were there. David and Amber with baby Elizabeth visited that year as well.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories All the States We Visited or Passed Through

State Alabama (No official nickname)[1]

Nickname(s) Cotton Plantation State[2] Cotton State[3] Heart of Dixie (used on license plates)[3][4][5] Lizard State[2] Yellowhammer State[3]
Arizona
Apache State[8] Aztec State[8] Baby State (Because Arizona is the newest continental state in the Union)[8] Copper State[8] Grand Canyon State (currently used on license plates)[8][9] Italy of America[8] Sand Hill State[8] Sunset State[8] Sweetheart State (See below)[8] Valentine State (Arizona gained statehood on February 14, 1912)[8] Bear State[10] Bowie State[10] Hot Springs State[10] Land of Opportunity (former official nickname; previously used on license plates)[10] The Natural State (currently used on license plates)[10][11] Razorback State[10] Toothpick State[10] Wonder State[10] El Dorado State[12] The Golden State[13][14] (previously used on license plates) The Eureka State[15] Buffalo Plains State[16] (in disuse) Centennial State[17] (previously used on license plates) Colorful Colorado[17] (previously used on license plates) Columbine State[18] Highest State[16] Lead State[16] (in disuse) Mother of Rivers[19] Rocky Mountain Empire[20] Rocky Mountain State[21] (in disuse) Silver State[16] (in disuse; see Nevada)
Arkansas
California
Colorado
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Switzerland of America[22] Constitution State (official, but not technically identified as a nickname)[23] Nutmeg State[12] Blue Law State[12] Freestone State[12] Land of Steady Habits[12] Chemical Capital[24] Corporate Capital (due to the state's business-friendly laws)[24] Diamond State (allusion to the state flag)[24] Blue Hen State or Blue Hen Chicken State[25] The First State[24][26] (Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution; currently used on license plates) Home of Tax Free Shopping[24] New Sweden[24] Peach State[24] Small Wonder[24] Uncle Sam's Pocket Handkerchief[24] Nation's Capital[27] DMV (nickname for the broader metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia)[27] Alligator State[28] Everglade State[28] Flower State[28] Gulf State[28] La Florida Orange State[28] Peninsula State or Peninsular State[25] Sunshine State (currently used on license plates) Peach State[29] (previously used on license plates) Cracker State Along with Florida, Georgia had been called "The Cracker State" in earlier times, perhaps a derogatory term that referred to immigrants, called "crackers," from the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina.[29] See also Atlanta Crackers: Origin of the name Empire State of the South Refers to economic leadership[29] Yankee-land of the South: Similarly to the above nickname, "Yankee-land of the South" speaks to industrial and economic development in the south. This nickname may be used in a derogatory sense.[29] Goober State Refers to peanuts, the official state crop.[29]
Connecticut
Delaware
D.C.
Washington,
Florida
Georgia
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Idaho
Gem State[33] Gem of the Mountains[34] Little Ida[34] Spud State[35] Potatonia Land of Lincoln[37] (currently used on license plates) Prairie State[37] Corn State[37] Inland Empire State Garden of the West[37] Crossroads of America (previously used on license plates) Hoosier State[38] Hospitality State Sunshine State Hawkeye State[39] Land of the Rolling Prairie Tall Corn State America's Bread Basket Sunflower State[40] Wheat State (previously used on license plates) Home of Beautiful Women[41] Central State[12] Jayhawker State[12] Sunflower State[12] Bluegrass State (currently used on license plates)[42] Corn-cracker State (reported in 1881)[25] The Dark and Bloody Ground State (an allusion to battles between the Creek, Shawnee, Chickasaw, and Cherokee tribes)[42] Hemp State[42] Tobacco State[42] Bayou State (previously used on license plates) Child of the Mississippi Creole State[12] Fisherman's Paradise Holland of America Pelican State[12] Sportsman's Paradise (currently used on license plates) Sugar State
Illinois[36]
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
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Maine
Vacationland (currently used on license plates) Pine Tree State[43] Lumber State[12] America in Miniature[44] Chesapeake State[45] Cockade State[45] Crab State[citation needed] Free State[46] Monumental State[45] Old Line State[45] Oyster State[45] Queen State[45] Terrapin State[47] Baked Bean State[48] Codfish State (formerly represented on license plates by a codfish) The Bay State[48] The Commonwealth[citation needed] Old Colony State[49] Pilgrim State[48] The Spirit of America (currently used on license plates) The People's Republic of Massachusetts (colloquial) Taxachusetts (colloquial)[50][51][52][53][54] The Great Lakes State (previously used on license plates) Mitten State Winter Water Wonderland (previously used on license plates) Wolverine State[25] The World's Motor Capital America's High Five Butter Country Gopher State[12] Land of 10,000 Lakes ("10,000 Lakes" currently used on license plates) Land of Lakes Land of Sky-Blue Waters New England of the West[12] North Star State State of Hockey[55] Vikings State Bread and Butter State[12] Hospitality State (previously used on license plates) Magnolia State The South's Warmest Welcome
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
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The Birthplace of America's Music (currently being used on license plates) The Bayou State[12] Bullion State[12] Cave State Gateway State Bellwether State Lead State The Great Rivers State Ozark State Show-Me State (currently used on license plates) Big Sky Country (currently used on license plates) The Last Best Place[56] Treasure State (previously used on license plates) Beef State (previously used on license plates) Cornhusker State (technically the name in a popular sense rather than a nickname,[57] previously used on license plates) Tree Planter's State Blackwater State[12] Battle Born State (refers to the fact that Nevada joined the Union during the Civil War) Sagebrush State Silver State (currently used on license plates) Granite State[58] Mother of Rivers[58] Live Free or Die (motto currently used on license plates)[58] White Mountain State[58] Garden State (currently used on license plates) The Crossroads of the Revolution (previously used on license plates) The Tomato State Cactus State[59] The Colorful State Land of Enchantment[60] (currently used on license plates) Land of Sunshine (predates "Land of Enchantment"; this earlier nickname highlighted the large percentage of sunshine received statewide)[59] New Andalusia[59] The Outer Space State The Tex-Mex State The Spanish State[citation needed]
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
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New York

Empire State (currently used on license plates)[12] Excelsior State[12] Old North State[61] Tar Heel State[61] Turpentine State[62] Variety Vacationland[63] Rip Van Winkle State Land of the Sky First in Flight State (currently used on license plates)
North Carolina
Ohio
Buckeye State[25] Birthplace of Aviation[64] (currently used on license plates) Mother of Modern Presidents The Heart Of It All[65] Native America (currently used on license plates) Land of the Red Man Sooner State[66] Beaver State Union State Pacific Wonderland (previously used on license plates and currently available on an extra cost plate)[67] Sunset State Webfoot State[12] Liberty Bell State Independence State Keystone State[25] Quaker State Toll Booth State[68]
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Little Rhody[25] Ocean State (currently used on license plates) Palmetto State[25] Sandlapper State Iodine Products State (in disuse)[71][dead link] (previously used on license plates) Smiling Faces. Beautiful Places (motto previously used on license plates)[72] Artesian State[73]
South Carolina
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Blizzard State[73] Coyote State[73] Land of Infinite Variety The Mount Rushmore State[74] (officially adopted in 1980 in place of the former nickname of Sunshine State)[73] Sunshine State[73] Big Bend State (refers to the Tennessee River)[75] Butternut State (refers to the tan color of the uniforms worn by Tennessee soldiers in the American Civil War)[75] Hog and Hominy State[75] The Mother of Southwestern Statesmen[75] Volunteer State[75] (currently used on license plates) Friendship State[76] Lone Star State[25][76] (currently used on license plates) Chili State Beehive State Mormon State[77] Friendly State (in disuse) (formerly used on license plates)[78] Greatest Snow on Earth (formerly used on all license plates; now an alternate slogan on license plates alongside the state's current tourism slogan, "Life Elevated") Green Mountain State[25] (currently used on license plates) Mother of Presidents[12] Mother of States[12] Old Dominion State[25] The Commonwealth Evergreen State[79] (currently used on license plates) Apple State Mountain State (previously used on license plates) Panhandle State[12] America's Dairyland (currently used on license plates) Cheese State Badger State[12] Cowboy State Equality State Park State
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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Like No Place On Earth Forever West (On highway welcome signs)
Quilting
As you can see, once I retired I was finally able to quilt. I worked on them on my lap while traveling, and while Dad watched TV at night. I was able to make all the grandchildren baby quilts, and full size quilts for all 7 children as well as the grandchildren as wedding gifts. I did a couple of quilts as gifts, one in Florida that was raffled off had a sea shells motif and Florida colors. There were, two quilts I made for St Ritas that were raffled off as my charitable donation. I also was able to help complete two large quilts donated to church. For the first one, people created a square to represent their family that we quilted and hung in the church. Another one was done for the retirement of a long term elementary school principal, where all the school children did a square and we put it together and gave it to her as a memento of her service. After years of travel, we found that driving the motor back and forth to Ohio became wearing.
Volunteer Work
I also taught Sunday school for a few years at Saint Ritas Church. The lady I worked with is leading our rosary group now, so we have enjoyed being reconnected. She gave me the chimes for the window. There were seven children in the group and each one of them got a set of chimes, so she got me too. When she quit, I quit as well. While we were teaching that year on Sunday school we got them ready for first communion, in fact I just found a picture of the class in my bedroom. Then there was a lady who was looking for someone to help with the baptismal bibs. She didn't have anything set, and said whoever comes up with an idea let me know. I was the only one who came up with an idea so they had me draw a pattern. I was put in charge of doing this and had someone make up the bib up and I embroidered them with white silk floss with symbols which I designed to represent St. Ritas for use by the baptismal candidates. The last time I handed in 26, and let them know that was enough so that so I turned it over to another one of the ladies. I gave them the pattern that I used to copy onto the material so they can always do more. The lady that took it over has a fancy sewing machine that does embroidery, so she may have begun doing it that way. For some time I helped out with the St Ritas carnival as well, acting as a cashier. 53 | P a g e
Eleanor P Littman - Memories 50th Wedding Anniversary, May 11, 1996

All of the seven children jointly put on a fabulous party for our Anniversary. We were impressed by their sponsoring such an elaborate event with live music, cake, decorations and many dear friends and relatives as guests.
I remember we got to see little Brandy and Rob with baby Shelby in arms as a newborn for the first time. Little Seth was only about 6 months old in Georges arms. My dear friend Jeanne was able to make it as her husband had recently passed away. Dads sister Donna and her family came from Toledo. Eileen and Freddy came in from Wauseon. Ken and Diane Huth, Pat and Chuck to mention only a few. It was a wonderful day!
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May 11, 1996 - 50th Wedding Anniversary 40/8 Hall, Dayton Ohio
Top pictures with my dear friend Jeanne Tenney Bottom picture with Otis and his sister Donna and her girls Brenna and Reba Sue
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Dad wasnt able to dance much, as his knees were bothering him by this time. But the music was so inviting that we got at least one dance in.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Enjoying Our Grandchildren

I enjoyed getting close to Denises children as they lived close by, I got to know them better than the other grandchildren. While she lived across the street Denise started to work second shift at Grandview putting together dinner trays. I would go over for a little while until Ronnie got home. Their wire hair terrier, Scruffy would always come and meet me for a belly rub. Melissa and I would play games. Sometimes she would look at me and say, Why dont to put her to bed so we can play? Rhonda loved her bed especially when there was loud noises or anything bothering her, like the fire station sirens and lawnmowers. It was good that she felt so happy and secure there. Then Denise went on first shift in the library and we were in an educational video prepared there. She was happy while she was at the hospital close by, but when it was purchased by the Kettering network, Denise (and Michele for a time) had to travel to the South of Greater Dayton, some 40 minutes away. Melissa had a doll called Elizabeth that she carried around continually, morning noon and night. It had vinyl hands and legs and head but the rest was but the body was cloth. When Denise washed it, all the stuffing when into the head. Melissa was mortified! Melissa screamed until she agreed to take it across the street to get it fixed. Mmre, Mommy killed Elizabeth! She was so worried, but I said Dont worry about it, I will give her an operation and shell get all better. Later we would look at her stitches and remember the episode. Melissa and Rhonda thought that if anything broke, all they would need to do was take it to me. Mmre can fix anything! They were just convinced I could, and of course I had a lot of experience with fixing things for my own kids. Then Denise send Ronnie then were able to get their own place on Swallow Drive and moved from across the street. It remains a blessing to have her so close by and so willing to help. Otis always had a special bond with Rhonda; they seemed to really understand one another and communicate well through years of growing up.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories LOSS OF LOVED ONES Mmre

My Mom died as a result of the auto accident in October 1968. She was riding with her cousin Eli and Regina Sauv. Eli was driving and was the only survivor. Mom was buried in Rhode Island at St. Anns cemetery with her Mother. A few of us drove back to Rhode Island for the funeral and had a harrowing trip in dense fog all night. Dad drove a short while, then David took over. He had just gotten his license but was a good driver. When David started running a temperature, I took over.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Ppre

After Mom died, my Dad was lost for a while. He would call in the evening and talk for hours. Making food for him and listening to him was all I could do to help, as I was still working full time. Then he got busy with projects around the house after retirement. Ppre eventually became involved with the seniors group and with his dancing partner Sarah. They went dancing and he became very fashion conscious. Eventually he developed prostate cancer and had to have ostomy surgery. Im sure there are advances, but he was uncomfortably self-conscious after that. Later he was hospitalized and Marc and I took turns staying with him. One day after Id gone home I got a call that he had taken a turn for the worse. When I visited him and told him he did not need to hang in for me any longer that Mom was waiting for him. He looked at me with eyes that said, Really, do you mean that? and then he peacefully drew his last breath and left.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Grandma Printz

Mother (Mae) used to call for Junior, and when he didnt call back, would accuse me of not giving her the message to him. Eventually she would get a hold of him and talk non-stop. He was known to put the phone down and walk away, coming back occasionally to say something and then doing the same thing again. Eventually after Joe died, Donna took her to Toledo and bought her a house (after selling the Piqua house). She took to hording food, and they would have to come clean out the fridge much to her dismay as she wouldnt listen to Donna. Grandma Printz mental health problems began after her first husband, Otis W was found to have been cheating on her. Once, at the Cincinnati Zoo, Mom and Aunt Donna caught him with another woman on his arm. Mom said she would not let him get away with this and marched up to him and said Hello Daddy. He tried to make excuses, but I insisted that All I know is that MY Daddy wouldnt do this.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Otis

One night In Florida, when planning to go out to play cards, Dad didnt feel well, and wanted me to go on without him. When I came back he was still sitting in the same place and said he couldnt breathe well. We called 911 and they discovered he had fluid on his lungs. A week later when it wasnt clearing up as they thought, they did a biopsy and found cancer. He had one chemo treatment there, then the insurance wanted him back in Ohio. Dad was anxious to get home, so David and Renee came down to Florida and drove his truck with their possessions, and Renee followed in their car. I couldnt get Dad in and out of bed etc., so he went to Marie Josephs for rehab. Dad thought that he didnt need to learn how to do for himself, because as he told the therapist, my wife will do that for me when I get home. Otis had radiation and chemo with Roger Mayfields wife as the RN where he was treated. When his condition worsened, he went to hospital and they discussed sending him to hospice. Marc would spell me off with visitations, and he had many stories of Dads hallucinations. He told Marc that his favorite nurse was the one that just came in. Although he was too sick to remember I was his wife, I was still his favorite. At the end, someone from the hospital called me and Denise drove me there. They pumped Dads stomach before he died more comfortably with the two of us at his side. Lung cancer can be a long debilitating decline, so I felt that it was such a blessing that he went quickly, only 6 weeks from the discovery of the cancer.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Richard Kim
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IT CANNOT CRIPPLE LOVE. IT CANNOT SHATTER HOPE. IT CANNOT DESTROY PEACE. IT CANNOT SHUT OUR MEMORIES. IT CANNOT INVADE THE SOUL. IT CANNOT QUENCH THE SPIRIT. NOR CAN IT REDUCE ETERNAL LIFE
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Donna Bader
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Timeline

Relationship: My Mother (Mmre) Father in Law (Grandpa Littman) Step Father in Law (Grandpa Printz) My Father (Ppre) Brother in Law Mother in Law (Grandma Printz) Step Mother in Law (Grandma Littman) Son Husband My dear friend Sister in Law Married: 1946-05-11 Name: Elodia, M Stella Turgeon Otis W Littman Birth: 1902-0908 1899-0924 1898-0122 1900-0915 1922-0625 1902-0122 1906-0815 1952-0904 1921-0225 1925 1924-0829 1925-1030 Place: Didace Quebec Ohio Death: 1968-10-12 1971-04-09 Place: Dayton Ohio Greenville Ohio Piqua Ohio
Joseph Printz
Married: 1952 Mt Carmel Quebec Ohio Ohio Ohio
1975-08
Alfred Parenteau Barney Bader Clara Mae Streib Osa (Osie) Littman Richard Kim Littman Jr Otis Littman Jeanne Tenney Donna Mae Littman Eleanor, Marie Blanche Parenteau
1977-11-03 1980-01-05 1980-06-27 1985-06-01
Dayton Ohio Wayne Michigan Ohio West Milton Ohio Dayton Ohio Dayton Ohio Middletown New Jersey Toledo Ohio Dayton Ohio
Dayton Ohio Versailles Ohio Providence Rhode Island Ohio Providence Rhode Island
2001-04-20 2002-06-16 2011-02-06 2012-11-25
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NEW LIFE WITH GRANDCHILDREN
Then our first grandchild came along. Brandy looked like one of our one of my own. I got to keep her while her Mother was hospitalized with hepatitis. The girls took turns taking a day off from school. I would bathe her and have her formula ready before going to work late. The girls took over and I came home at noon to check on them. Later on she was a colicky baby and Mark and Karen would drop her off with me for a while to rock her. She was always good for me! Then when Marc and Karen took a trip to California to see about a move we had our baby with us full-time for a short period. Karen and Brandy were with us until Mark flew home to pack their furniture in a U-Haul for the trip to California. I cried for days when they took my baby away so far. I enjoyed the next grandchild, Jeremy by himself for little while and when he was eight months old Aaron was born in Florida. Michelle and Jeremy made a trip to Florida with us in the motorhome, with the other three girls to see the new baby when he reached six weeks of age. Bev and Michelle took turns nursing babies while the other had their shower and dressed.
LIFE ON MY OWN
As my parents both died young, I didnt expect to live so long. My Dad had a couple of sisters that lived into their 90s however, so perhaps I will take after them. I guess the Lord has something else that he wants me to do, before I get called home. I'm looking at the digital picture frame and seeing a picture from the photographer. Renee seems to have picked a lot more of the family traits or they are showing up more with her hair short. I always thought she had such a different look, but I am seeing more resemblance with her hair short. Traveling has been fairly limited since being alone. I was able to go with Annette to visit Michelle and Vivian in New York and Massachusetts and make an excursion to Cape Cod. My last trip was to California when grandchildren Jeremy and Jennifer and their families were visiting.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories FAMILY TRADITIONS

I usually go to Denise's for Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas day, and then to Annette's for Christmas Eve David and Karen usually make it to Ohio to spend New Years Eve with me Memorial Day has a long time family tradition as well that continued from the small town of Versailles event complete with a parades on Memorial Day. Afterward, everyone would go to the cemetery and decorate the graves of their lost ones. In that graveyard lie the remains of: o Grandpa Otis W, and Grandma Osa (he called her Osie). The grave has built in flower pot and we put some in there he liked red flowers and she liked pink. Now we use artificial flowers as we dont get there that often. Close by is the Streib family stones - including Grandma Mae Printz and her Mother whose remains were moved so as to share in the gravesite well as headstone. There was two flower pots for Mae and her Mother so we made a garland of flowers that covered both sides all around. Maes sister, Aunt Kitty, and her son (who was killed falling off a wagon) is also there as well as the original Cressence and Barnard Streib from Germany (the ones in the large panorama picture in the Spare Bedroom at my house) We usually go to the Littmans graves and then on Maes and Otis Ws graves. They are in a kind of covered area, so the flowers always looked good, so we would give them new ones and then, Rotate the flowers to Whitey and Katherines grave. Denise wold clean the grass up as it didnt look like they got visitors there.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Birthdays and Anniversaries

I have often been thanked for regularly sending cards to mark the important dates of those I love. I suppose in this day and age, not many cards are sent, but this has always been my way of celebrating the occasions. I do hope that this is not something lost when Im gone, so here are the dates in case you havent kept track of them.
Year at a glance:
Date: January 2, 1955 January 3, 1954 January 3, 1954 January 25, 2000 February 19, 2000 February 25, 1921 March 1, 1986 March 4, 19__ March 6, 1999 March 6, 1963 March 7, 19__ March 11, 1978 March 13, 1977 April 3, 1973 April 11, 2002 April 11, 2000 April 12, 2003 April 24, 1981 April 29, 1975 April 30, 1997 May 3, 1996 May 8, 2006 May 6, 19__ May 11, 1946 May 11, 2013 May 23, 2000 May 26, 19__ May 30, 19__ Given: Ronald Michelle Adrienne Marc Adrien Chase Aaron Jacob Watson Otis J Robert (Bob) Deborah Lynette Connor Alan Annette Yvonne Robert Alan (Rob) Melissa Harmony Amber Alicia Francie Kaitlynn Jade Jasmine Nicole Ashton Michael Donald (Don) Aaron David Victoria Shelby Taylor Gabriel David George Otis J Rhonda Harmony David Paul Matthew Jeremy Karen Jo Annette Yvonne & Last: Littman Littman Littman Littman Fox Littman Slusser Littman Jones Littman Littman Allen Littman Hobbs Voss Voss Voss Meadows Littman Proffitt Jones Molina Hobbs Littman Carpenter Littman Goebel Littman Anniversary
Renee Andrea
Anniversary
Eleanor Steve Karen
Anniversary Anniversary Anniversary
June 4, 1982 June 9, 2003 June 10, 2013 June 15, 1982 July 3, 2001 July 10, 19__ July 16, 2001
Vivian Edward Quinn Olive Krista Rhonda Harmony Alayna Renee Donna Jeremy
Michelle Adrienne
Merchant Straker Slusser Allen Littman Sowards Straker
Anniversary
Jacinta
Anniversary
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July 24, 1957 August 1, 1997 August 2, 19__ August 6, 1986 August 6, 2005 August 7, 2006 August 2, 1997 August 20, 1947 August 21, 1951 August 23, 1974 September 4, 1952 September 10, 2005 September 13, 1990 September 15, 1978 September 17, 2000 September 28, 1973 October 1, 1999 October 1, 1975 October 11, 19__ October 11, 19__ October 11, 1996 October 15, 1959 October 15, 1977 October 17, 1976 October 25, 2003 October 25, 19__ October 30, 1925 November 14, 1995 November 17, 2007 November 17, 19__ December 2, 20__ December 8, 19__ December 11, 19__ December 20, 2001 December 20, 1974 December 20, 19__ Denise Danielle Jeremiah Harlan Steve Robert Dustin Rafael Evencio, Jr Jonas Matthew Robert Alan Vivian Edward David Paul Jeremy Michael Richard Kim Matthew Jeremy Tari Melissa Jacinta Riley Joseph BrandyAdrienne Noah Christopher Ryan Sabrina Savanna George Renee Andrea Ronald Jennifer Michelle Tim Tim Eleanor Parenteau Seth Evan Marc Adrien Robert Donald Gavin Rafael Evencio Jr Tim Elisabeth Anne Sandra Donald Andrew Deborah Lynnette Melissa Harmony Littman Fox Carpenter Slusser Molina Goebel Jones Littman Littman Roy Littman Goebel Slusser Roy Emmel Littman Myer Littman Sowards Sowards Meyers Littman Allan Roy Sowards Sowards Littman Myer Littman Slusser Carpenter Littman Hobbs Dick Sowards Littman Anniversary Anniversary
Amber Alicia Brandy Adrienne
Anniversary Anniversary
Francie Denise Danielle Sandra Sandra
Anniversary Anniversary Anniversary Anniversary
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October 2013 Aged 88 With my surviving family
David (1) Annette (7) Denise (5) Eleanor
Marc (4) Renee (6) Michelle (3)
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Pork Pies:
I have one for here, then when David comes we usually have a pork pie for New Years. A project with Denise: Put water in it (not swimming but so it cooks without sticking and browning) meat stays soft. About a pound and for each pie - add flour (I used a shaker so as it would thicken it wouldnt make lumps) until a little at a time until it thickens like a gravy. Season with onion and garlic powder (my Mother didnt but she just didnt season with it) she used a lot of onion however. You can put almost any spice in it that you would want to. When it is the thickness you want, put it between two crusts. My Mother always made a round hole in the center and used what she cut off the edges to roll up and put around it like a little worm. That was her trade mark. The meat is done, so just cook it until it is browned the bottom especially. (If it isnt browning soon enough, you can cover the fluted edges while the bottom browns.) I dont remember how high, Denise has been baking so Im not sure probably around 400 degrees. Im not much more than the supervisor at this point. Denise brings it to me to taste so see if she has it right or not. Last year she even brought them home to take them there. Mmre would take milk and wet the top of the crust so it would brown easier or more evenly. She didnt write anything down, and didnt allow me in the kitchen while she was cooking. That was the Canadian Christmas and New Years tradition, as people were visiting and it was an easy meal to make ahead. It used to be that you couldnt get ground pork so we would have to have it ground specially. Apparently there is a lot of different ethnic groups use pork now during holiday times so it is more readily available. I even found some great carriers so we can transport them more easily this year.
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Banana Spice Cake, Apple Dumplings & Oatmeal Cake:
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Oatmeal spice cake topping:
Spinach Salad:
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FAMILY HEALTH HISTORY:

Cancer type if yes: Age at onset of illness: Smoke r/ drinker Other major illness: Still living ?
Name:
Age:
Notes:
Yourself Siblings: Richard Kim Littman Richard Kim Littman Michelle Merchant Renee A Meadows Renee A Meadows Annette Y Slusser Fathers family My Father: Paternal Grandmother: Paternal Grandfather: Other family members Otis Jr. Littman Mae Printz (Streib) Otis W. Littman G. Aunt Minnie (Streib) Norbert Littman Lloyd Littman Verl Littman 69 No 81 78 71 Rectal 71 Lung Nonsmall cell 81 X Light X Arthritis in knees Depression Aortic aneurysm No No No Died in sleep Died in surgery 18 mos . 48 55 5 51? 50 Breast Precancerous Wilms Tumor 18 mos. Borderline glaucoma X No Yes Yes X Yes Yes Kidney removed, radiation Secondary lung cancer Congenital Hip dysplasia Bowel Intussusception Lumpectomy/c hemo Colon
Kidney/bone
43 40 5 51 50
94
No
77 76
Parkinsons
No No
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Mothers family Osteopenia Eleanor Littman (Parenteau) Degenerative arthritis 83 Precancerous goiter, thyroid removed Glaucoma lost one eye Prostate 76.5 Controlled glaucoma No Scoliosis
My Mother:
Maternal Grandmother: Maternal Grandfather: Other family members:
Elodia Parenteau (Turgeon) Alfred Parenteau Leona (Parenteau) Blanche (Parenteau)
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Car accident Cancer spread to colon
77 95
No No
Breast
No
Spread to female organs & then spine
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Eleanor P Littman - Memories MY HERITAGE

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I was born in Providence Rhode Island 8|P age

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Eleanor P Littman - Memories GROWING UP

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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Life as a Young Adult

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THE EARLY YEARS WITH OTIS

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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Quonset Point Naval Base

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Jul 7, 1941: U.S. occupies Iceland

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Wilms' tumor, Wilms tumor (/vlmz/), or nephroblastoma is cancer of

Eleanor P Littman - Memories Michelle Adrienne and Marc Adrian

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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Intussusception in Children

Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is a form of blood vessel inflammation

Eleanor P Littman - Memories School Days

Ascension Parish and Elementary School

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Busy Family Life

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Mmre and Ppre

Eleanor P Littman - Memories The Teen Years

Always Room for One More

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Eleanor P Littman - Memories Social Time

Eleanor P Littman - Memories RETIREMENT

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Our Time to Travel

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1978 1979 1980

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Virginia Beach Convention

Baton Rouge Convention

chicken scratch quilt king-size quilt on my bed log cabin quilt

Crazy cats quilts for Renee

1994 1995 1996

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

Grand chef reception Dick Bartley

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Eleanor P Littman - Memories All the States We Visited or Passed Through