Nana Biography

She’s a year and a half older, and she’s crazy about horses, this all happened by being in Kentucky, so now she inherited a lot of money from her mother and she’s living there. And she has a horse farm and she breeds race horses because she knows how to care for them and train them. And her dream has come true, she’s always thought of as a child, a horse farm, and raise thoroughbreds.

Do you see her ever?

Yes. When she comes through, sometimes she’ll call and I’ll drive up and have lunch with her at the airport, or she spends one night. And we’re very close still, we really are. We have a bond, which is very nice. And she took to John right away, and she took to Don, she, you know, if it’s part of the family, she loves it and she’s the one, there seems to be one and every family, that sort of knows who everybody else in the family is, and what’s happening.

Everybody checks in with her.

Yes. She has the family tree, and all that. And a lot of the family furniture.

The end of the story about the ponies was that some other father of some other teenage girl in Kentucky was hearing my father say about how he found out we’ve been down there running those ponies around the track, and this guy said, “if I had a daughter that would do a thing like that, I’d be so proud“it changed my fathers attitude about it, my mother told me later. He got a whole different idea.

That’s fantastic.

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