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Grandmother Baker, 921125

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0404 - Summary/Objective
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040501 - Follow up
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040503 - Followed up work at ref SDS 4 line 23.
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0408 - Progress
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040901 - Took 680 to 580, to I5, then turnoff 33 to Los Banos, that turns into
040902 - Highway 152 until it reaches US99.
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040905 - Arrived in Fresno about 0930.  Got the car washed.
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040908 - Arrived at Grandmother's about 0950.  Stephanie and Bob were on the
040909 - porch.  Kathleen had gone to rent extra chairs for mourners to arrive
040910 - after the ceremony.  Mother was having a shower.  David and Robin had
040911 - not arrived from their motel.
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040914 - Stephanie was using "inhalers" of some kind to help with a breathing
040915 - problem.
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040918 - Millie and I visited for half an hour or so, then went for a walk.
040919 - When we got back, Kathleen had returned from her errands; then David
040920 - and Robin arrived, and about 1230 Eddie arrived.  Many of
040921 - Grandmother's friends from their chuch were arriving with dishes for
040922 - the meal after the ceremony.  Bob and David were cooking a roast dish.
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0412 - Discussion
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041401 - Initially it was not clear that Louie remembered Millie and me, but
041402 - after a while it seemed he recalled clearly and with great fondness
041403 - our last visit on 930405, when he and Grandmother talked about their
041404 - youth growing up at a time without the gadgets of modern of life.
041405 - ref SDS 2 365L  Louie commented on the advantage of home stability
041406 - when making a change requires hitching up the horse and riding 10
041407 - miles over difficult terraine and uncertain hazards.
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041410 - Mother cried in explaining the loss she has suffered by the passing of
041411 - Grandmother.  She told how she, Robin and Kathleen were holding
041412 - Grandmother and speaking out on their love for Grandmother, as life
041413 - slowly ebbed away.  Mother described the button on her telephone that
041414 - enabled her to form a practice over her lifetime of calling "Mother"
041415 - to share news good and bad.  This convenience did not exist for
041416 - Grandmother to call her mother, nor for Mother's grandmother, and so
041417 - this may have contributed to the strength of an earlier people raised
041418 - in a tradition of self-sufficiency.
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041421 - Talking to Louie, I observed how strange it seems to even contemplate
041422 - a life without a water faucet to get a drink, a light switch to
041423 - brighten the darkness, a car to extend the strength of our legs or
041424 - that of horses to visit far away places on short notice.  How
041425 - different life must have been for our Grandmother and all the mothers
041426 - before her.  Somehow they found the strength to endure what seems for
041427 - us today, unbearable hardships, and on that strength built a better
041428 - life for their children.
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041431 - Kathleen was out when we arrived, but had returned by the time Millie
041432 - and I returned from our walk.  She seemed kind of hyper.  Mother asked
041433 - her to calm down.  Kathleen or Mother mentioned that Jerry is married
041434 - and his wife has had a baby.
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