Nana Biography

No, I wasn’t, but there was never any time that we didn’t have a family feeling, and I still do with her, and her husband. I like them, and I like boys, who grew up with our boys, and we were very friendly, but that’s the trouble with the country. They don’t live near each other. But we all gather together at Thanksgiving, that’s part of the family. And so it is, everybody except Don was there, you know. And John came and is very sweet about it. It’s very nice.

And the cousins are all close, like your boys and her boys? 

Oh yes, and their wives, they all know each other, and there are little kids around running amok, and that’s nice.

That’s a family. 

That’s their only cousins, right? 

No. 

Oh, your brother.

My brother has children. 

That’s right. 

We have three cousins there who are much older. Excuse me, they’re not older than my kids, they’re younger. I was thinking of the grandchildren, cousins, because there are some of those, but they never see each other.

And so you’re making a comment that everybody is sort of dispersed. 

Yes, and I guess when you are divorced and have all these different family groups, it’s a lot. But I’m sure there’s more of that more now than before.  But really there’s no friction. And they’re all nice people, you know, they’re attractive. Pete was the vice president of food machinery corporation. Eleanor Powell was and Jock Fowell were best friends. I know each other and we’re very very close. And politics broke up their friendship. They speak even when they see each other, but Jack says he couldn’t bear to spend an evening with Pete now.

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