Nana Biography

That was Len?

Yes. He was impolite, he was sullen, he really had a tough time. And we knew it, And John was very, very good, and it about a years time he was completely one over. The little one and Sam took to him right away. They were all over him. One thing that John did in our house, was so great. He assumed the role of father. He asked me before we were married, what I want to go on being the boss or would he take on that job, and I said, “please do it if you’d like to “. So he said, “all right, I will, but it’s going to be tough on you because when I make the decisions it’s going to be really tough”, and it was. I thought a couple of times he was too severe, he would send Len into his room and tell him he couldn’t have his dessert and the other boys would say, “John, that wasn’t fair. “ (both laugh.) then he said, “I told you now, you’ve got to back me up. “And he did, I was almost biting my tongue off. But he was right. The children responded to him, and I think he was marvelous. They benefited from his association as much as I had. They were lucky, just really lucky because that’s something you can’t predict, I can’t say enough about him and what he’s done for life. Now, the pleasure still went on. We played golf, we played bridge, we did a lot of things. But he was an academic and went to work, well, after all, my first husband went to work too. So that I was no longer as active in some of the political things. oh, every school bond and things like that, I worked on it. And as the time went by, I began to think that maybe I should be doing something when I was older and I wouldn’t be able to play golf or maybe something else what happened. Also, intellectually I was getting a little more stimulation from him.

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