Nana Biography

Clyda has said that when she first met Dan, her life would be nearly complete, because he’s the easiest one she had ever pulled over. She had a great sense of power over men, she was sexy as hell, in a disgusting way. That I would, she said , I would leave and go back to Kentucky and she would become Mrs. Don Edwards and belong to the Menlo Country Club. She had always wanted. She came from a very poor family in Florida, the daughter of someone who took in wash, so she really had a sad upbringing in many ways. She had a brother who was a homosexual, and she left her two boys with him. He cared for the house and did the cooking and took care of the kids.

She was married before? 

She was married to a man who was in a mental hospital out here, but she was married before that to someone else. So one child was from the first husband, and one child was from the second husband. However, she had forgotten to divorce, the first one. 

Forgotten?

Well, they didn’t get divorced, so there’s some illegitimacy problem there, I don’t know. And the second husband was in the veterans hospital here, his name was Colonel Brown. Immediately his lawyer called me up, and I went out and met him. He was an alcoholic, obviously with problems, but he could not be released because she would not let him out of the hospital. One of the things she done by saying how scared she was of her husband and that here she was with these two little boys. He began to feel protective, I guess. Anyway, they took off one morning with the company car, he had cashed the check for $10,000 someplace.

$10,000 in those days.

Yes, community property, money, Skipped town, and nobody knew where they were.

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