I guess that my father; he’s a person, you can give him a problem and he’ll think about it before he talks and then he’ll have an answer for you, and regardless if he’s 93 he still can help me with my problems of every day life. I guess I take it for granted and someday… (Voice filled with emotion).

In November he got very sick and really I didn’t think he was going to make it through Christmas. I mean, he had this horrible rash and we just bad and I thought, oh gosh, and I said that someday at some meeting I was at and they said, “Oh, was he that bad?” and I said, “Yes.” But, you know he’s given me a lot of food for thought over all these years and I’ll be very proud to remember all the things that he’s taught me to (Crying), and I probably don’t say thank you. So when he’s gone I’ll be sorry but I don’t do that.

I’m grateful to my parents and their upbringing and their values of good and bad, moral and unethical, the truth.

We all went out to eat, just on Saturday, in this little town of Findlay and, uh, not my dad, he wasn’t there on that particular time but the bill at this Miller’s Kitchenette for five people was $24, and we came to my dad’s house and John and Jim and I said, “Well, $24…that didn’t seem quite right,” you know? We knew we had three specials, we had this, we had that, and the more we thought about it it wasn’t right.

If it had been Applebee’s or some name-brand restaurant I probably wouldn’t have bothered about it, and I said, “Are you sure this is right?” So, we started thinking about it and it really wasn’t and so when I picked my dad up on Saturday to bring him to my house I said, “I have to stop at Miller’s Kitchenette. I’m going to get them to figure the bill out again,” and my dad said, “Oh, well how much do you think it is?”

Well, it turned out that they short changed themselves $16.

Now if it had of been Applebee’s it’s a chain and it’s okay, but these are people we’ve known. For years we’ve gone to this restaurant and when I was even a home economist I would run over there and I thought, that girl just really didn’t do that right. So, I think having good ethical backgrounds and following through, and trying to live a good life, and have faith in God, and have lots of friends.

My mother has always said, “You always have your relatives but the people you choose as your friends, you’ll have them good and bad, but they’ll be the ones who will probably stick by you whenever you are in a time of need.”

I’m really thankful for the heritage and the care that they are given here. It’s not gonna be 100% and nobody is going to think it’s going to be perfect when it’s your parents, but many times we have little problems and I’m just pleased that I can go to like Deb Hatfield or whoever it might be and tell them what our concerns are and in short order it’s usually always taken care of.

It’s not an inexpensive place to live and when you’ve lived here for 10 years – my father knows that and he’s pretty good with his figures yet and his adding and his subtracting, so…But, I’m thankful we’ve had him for 93 years so far and he’s been an asset to our family and as a great-grandpa to my grandchildren. They will always remember him. I have started a scrapbook and the scrapbook – our kids were here this weekend and they go, “Well who are these people?”

When I was young and when Jim was young, it was our pictures as we got married and as the children came into our family. We just live in today’s world. We didn’t have digital cameras or any of that sort of thing, you know, so I was just kind of putting some things together for each of us. When my father was 90, I think it was, I put a scrapbook together for him that he can just go and look at over his years and if you’ve been in his apartment you know he even has his grandparent’s pictures and stuff like that.