This letter was written on July 27, 1959.

Dear Doris and James and family, it seems you are never going to write, hope you are all well we are having the rain here, weather cool. I stayed in Stillwater last week with Jan well Jane and Ted vacationed in Colorado. Every day Jan would ask where is daddy where is mommy? We change the subject at first but family would tell her they went bye-bye. She would say daddy work mommy  gone gone. She was real good much to our surprise she didn’t cry the morning they left they left early and she didn’t wake up in an hour and a half after they left. If she had seen them leave there would have been trouble. Karen went down there with me. I heard on TV that they had 8 inches of rain in Stillwater and some residents in SE  part of town had to leave  their homes for part of the night. Did the hurricane cause any disturbance where you are? We plan to go to Etowah for the home coming August 9. Hope it isn’t too hot. It was real chilly here yesterday evening and this morning still pleasant. I am making plum jelly and plum butter today. Too rainy to wash. I went to Rushes  open house yesterday at two. Had a nice time. Came with Holts.

Ruth home from hospital. They didn’t operate she is about like she was, Sick one day and able to go to lodge conference the next is the way she had been for a long time. Hope she gets better soon.
Tell the children all hello.
Write soon,
Love,
Mom.

Myrtle said she wished they had one or two of those children. Riley Rushes and Ocral/Oral[?sic] Rushes celebrated their 40th wedding anniv Sunday.

~ transcriber note I’m not sure if that last name is Rushes or Rushis. DD