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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1951
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Death Takes Will Pyle,
Continued From Page One
| getting old and all our friends
are “here. If we left here I'd just have to take a room in town somewhere, and he would, too. “So it's settled. Nothing much
is changed, except now it's two | instead of three,
which, of course, is everything. But they'll do the best they can. “Aunt Mary wants to paper the bathroom and the dining room which is all right. And Dad has to put a new floor in
| the front porch, because there
are holes in it you can almost
| fall through. And they'll re-
swing the porch swing so the sun doesn’t shine in your face. “Reconstruction is no simple
| thitig, though on the surface it | may seem So, | haunt my father, Sometimes he
Loneliness . will
and Aunt Mary will get on each other's nerves, but they'll. just have to sit it out. If I know them at all, I know they'll carry on, “My father is a mild man,
| So far as I know, he has never
said an unkind word about any-
| body in his life, ard I doubt
that anybody has ever said one about him.
» » ” “MY MOTHER was not like my father. She loved deeply
and despised quickly. She was °
the dominant one. I did not say dominating. She always almost forced my father to let her bow to his decisions, and as they grew older, she drew closer and closer to him. “In her later years, especially after her illness, she seemed to live ‘only for him. My Aunt Mary said the other day, ‘There was never a sweeter patient than your mother. Through it all she never uttered one word of complaint. And no matter what she asked of your father, he did it. I've never seen anything like the way they worshiped each other. It was absolutely beautiful.” ” And on Nov. 12, 1943. ... “My father is in the hospital for the first time in his life. He celebrated his 76th birthday there the other day. “He has been in the hospital for six weeks now, and has a month to go. He &njoys it more than anything that's happened to him in years. “My father stumbled and fell at the foot of some steps in the basement of Rhoades’ store in Dana, the last of September. He didn't break anything, but he was so badly bruised and wrenched that he couldn’t move, and Mr. Lunger had ‘to carry him upstairs in his arms. Mr. Lunger said my dad felt just like a feather, for he’s a little fellow like me.
n ” ” “THEY PUT him in an ambulance and brought him to the Clinton hospital, eight miles from our home near Dana. He couldn't move at all for several days, he was s0 sore. ‘Then he got to having nightmares and staggering around in his room at night, so the surgeon put a splint on his hip to keep him in bed. “It's merely a safety precau-
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tion, for the doc says he might break his already weakened .hip-bone just by wandering’ around the room. My dad gets mixed up and calls the splint a ‘flint’ when he tells about it. ‘The nurses all adore my dad, because he is mild and undemanding and extremely grateful for everything they do. As a consequence, .they do more for him than anybody else. They Joke with him and poke fun at him, and he likes that. “The night that my dad had his night-long nightmare was quite an occasion. Actually he was delirious, for part of the time he thought he was in Rockville, 25 miles away, and part of the time out in a tent in the hospital grounds. (He must have been reading too many of my war stories, for there isn’t any tent in the hospital ground). ~ “ » “AT ANY rate, it was while he was ‘in the tent’ that he had to go to the toilet. He got out of bed and couldn't find the door to the bathroom. He got completely” lost there in the dark. Then he felt the foot of the bed, and since he figured he was in a tent with no floor but the ground, what difference did it make? The nurses caught him at that, and put him back in bed. I don’t believe I've heard my father get as tickled in 40
years as when he recounts the .
story, “After awhile the nurses found him wandering around the room again. They asked
him what he thought he was doing. He sald why, he was just trying to find his way hick to the hospital. was up at Dana, and {it was time for him to be getting back. “After that they put sidehoards on his bed, he couldn't get out. “My father really seems to relish being in the hospital. He has a nice corner room where he can look out the front lawn and see people come in. His general health is good, and he looks fine. = on n “THE Clinton Hospital, like hospitals all over the country, I'm - told, producing more babies than at any time in history. As one of the nurses said, ‘The Army is sure shelling out the babies.’ “My dad is quite struck with this wholesale addition to the population, and every morning asks the nurses the score for the night. He and the nurses make jokes about it. My dad is scared to death they'll get mixed up and take him to the delivery room some day. “My dad ig neither blind nor deaf, but he is a little of each. His eyes are so bad people have to read his letters to him, and you have to speak rather loud to him. Which leads to a little story, “The night I arrived, several members of our family met the frain and we drove right to the hospital. The folks hung back so I could go ahead into the room alone.
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held out his hand, and we talked together for about a minute, and then the rest of them came in, He greeted them all, and then asked if they had been to the depot yet. They said yes and then my dad said: “‘Did Ernest come? “So they all howled and said, ‘Who do you think you've been talking to the last few minutes?" “‘Why,” he said, ‘I thought it was Clyde Howard.! Clyde is the barber up at Dana. My dad was very chagrined.” On Sept. 22, 1943:
“Perhaps you have heard of
my father. He is the man who put oil on his brakes when they ‘got to squeaking, then drove to town and ran over the curb and through a plate glass window and right into a dry goods store. “My father is also the man who ran with Roosevelt in 1932. He ran for county assessor, was the only Democrat in the county who lost, and was probably the happiest man who listened to election returns that
night, He couldn't think of anything worse than being county assessor. 5 ~ J
“AND the reason he lost was that all the people figured that if he was county assessor, he wouldn't have time to put roofs on their houses,.and paint their barns, and paper their dining rooms and 1ix their chimneys and do a thousand and one other things for them. I guess when my father is gone this whole neighborhood will just sore of fall down. “My father has never lived anywhere but on a farm, and vet I don’t think he ever did like the farm very well. He has been happiest, I think, since the war. He started renting the farm out then, and ever since, he has been carpentering and handy-manning all about the neighborhood. He is a wizard with tools, while other people are clumsy. He is a carpenter at heart. “My father did start out to
see the world once when he was |
a young man. He went to Iowa to cut broom corn, but broke
his leg and had to come home. |
He never went anywhere again till ‘he was 55, when he went to California to see his brother.
. He sat up all the way in a day |
eoach. Since then he has been to New York, so now he has seen both oceans.
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“MY FATHER is a very quiet He has never said a deal to me all his life, yet I feel that we have heen very good friends. He never gave me much advice, or told me to do this or that, or not to. But he didn’t spare me either. I worked like a horse from the time I was 9. “My father never much emotion.
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himself, for all he was worth, “My father used to work as a hired hand way over on the other side of the Wabash River. When he was courting my mother, every Sunday he would drive a horse six miles to the river, row a boat across and then ride a bicycle 10 miles to my mother’s house, At midnight he started the same process going home. Mother figured he either loved her, or else was foolish and needed somebody to look after him, so she married him. “My father is now getting a little deaf. Mother says he can always hear what he isn't supposed to hear.
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“IF MY
peeple, he never: says anything about it.
he’ never says much about that either. He .is very even-tem-pered. If he has an enemy in this whole country, I have yet to hear about it, “My father doesn't swear or drink or smoke. He is honest, in letter and in spirit. He is a good man, without being at all repulsive about it. He used to smoke cigars, but he quit the Fourth of July that Johnson fought Jeffries in think it was 1908. The event didn’t have anything to do with
it. His holiday cigar simply made him sicker than usual that day, so he quit.” Thus the part of the Pvie Book devoted to. the life of "Will Pyle is closed. . Ship Movements By United Press New York Arrivals Queen ¥ aheth Southampton Rio de a Plata Bueno Aires Departures Americar At nes Ant werp; mericar 1 Harvester, Brer : Baden, Auckland; Exan 10 casitmen Independence, Gibraltar: oe Brasil Ponta Delgado; Steel phen ist, Jeddah; | Washinetes, Cobh; mherst, St { flomas; Frances, San ant nior, Cris~ |tobal; Uruguay, Trinidad Juror, Cr Arrivals—Oberlin Victory, Yokoham San Francisco De fares gr
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