More "Others"

For several years after Chris and Andy left, I had the same kind of arrangement with two other families. First there was Bill Davis with his wife and mother-in-law and little boy. Bill worked for Martin Dairies as a driver salesman on a milk truck. When they moved after a couple of years, another milk driver salesman moved in. This was Al Ithan and his wife Thelma and their two small children. The Ithan family stayed with me until Claire and I were married in the fall of 1942. By that time World War II was at its height with all its shortages and inconveniences and I was getting ready to move to the farm at Salfordville. Al Ithan later was drafted into the army and spent some time in the South Pacific where he was injured in an accident and sent home.