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Ray Bracewell
When Great Grandfather Spencer's wife died, he had a daughter Rosetta. Then, he remarried someone we know as Aunt Jose. She had a younger brother, my Grandfather, Frank Edward Bracewell. I don't know how old Frank was when his sister married my great grandfather (Spencer). But, it is possible he was early teen and he and Aunt Jose raised them in one household. Anyway, he married Rosetta when she was sixteen and he wasn't much older. When Grandfather Spencer married Aunt Jose that made his sister, Aunt Jose, his mother in law.

Being a child with a sickness in the 1920s 1930s
5-7-2006 When we were sick in the 1920’s and 30’s when we were young, we were sick for a good two weeks as they didn’t have the medicines that they have now. It was very boring lying on the couch in the living room. I stuck pins in the hot water bottle and cut the tassels off the comforter.

How We Met
How we Met Norb and I entered the service approximately the same time, December and January 1943. Norb went to Paris Island, then officer's training at Quantico then to Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine across the NH border in June. I spent one month in Holyoke College, the next month at Smith, and two months at Radcliff in supply school and landed in Portsmouth Navy Yard, Maine in June also.

I believe in guardian angels
When Joe was a a baby he never cried. One day I had him propped up in the corner of his playpen. Norbert and Frank had left to take the bus to Taylor Park, a beach on the Grasse River.

More about the Sattlers
The Plaza Hotel was a nice residential hotel. When I walked down the hall with Uncle J. D. after dinner to get a pint of hand packed vanilla ice cream the tiles creaked because they were loose. He used to say always buy vanilla ice cream. In chocolate, they can use older milk.

Louise and Elizabeth Sattler
Louise and Elizabeth Sattler were sisters of my Grandmother Effting. When Louise was growing up she was very talented and outgoing. When a traveling group of actors came to town to put on a play they hired local people to perform bit parts. They hired Louise and they liked Louise so much they asked Louise to join the troop but her mother wouldn’t let her. She was employed in many different jobs throughout her life. But, she ended up as a designer of ladies hats at a prestigious company such as Lilly Dachet or Dach`e. She had twenty girls in the room sewing under her.

Raising a Family in Canton
A small town is a great place to raise a family. You feed them, dress them, send them out the door and they go everywhere on their own two feet no matter what the weather. We sent them out one morning and it was 50 below zero. We dressed them as warm as we could with two scarves. One tied in front to hold their coat collar up and one tied in back to cover their nose. I told them to run to school. They came home at noon for lunch. They said why did you tell us to run; it wasn't cold. We have movies of them walking up Pearl Street and turning around two or three times to wave good-bye.