Nana Biography

Right.

And, I guess they were sort of English people? 

No, I don’t think they were English. I don’t know where they came from. 

You never had any… No one ever sort of said what they were? 

No, just very prominent southerners. Southerners you know are very proud of their heritage, and all that business.

Were there family Bibles and things with trees in them and stuff like that?

I didn’t see any of that in my house. My stepfather had one brother and two sisters. And one sister married a man who lived in New York and he was the vice president of IT@T.  And the other sister married a man who came out to California and he was a big executive of some big company in Southern California.  They are both dead now. His brother is still living, he’s in his 90s, and he was a saint. Just a marvelous man, but crazy as a coot? And I’m sure that whatever money he has he’ll leave to my brother, because he and his wife had one son, and the son went into the Marines and the Korean war, And the first day out, he was a marine dive bomber, and that was the end of him. And it was also also the end of the old man.

Oh, sure.

Just absolutely ruined him.

Oh, yes.

And he came to our house, and she wore gray or black for the rest of her life, and roses in front of old pictures – it was rather grim to go.

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