{"id":1159,"date":"2012-04-18T23:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2016-01-25T20:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T04:36:31","slug":"black-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"Black dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-black-dress-september-1957\"<\/a> This spring, death has felt close. Today, my aunt was buried in Ontario. Rest in peace, Aunt Frances.<\/p>\n

I found this receipt from 1957 for a black dress, and I wondered about the story behind it. I knew my Great Grandfather died in 1957, so I imagined this being the last minute purchase of a black dress for the funeral. Tonight I pulled out Great Grandma’s journal from that time, and learned that his death was actually in May. Here is her entry:<\/p>\n

May 7, 1957<\/em><\/p>\n

Clarence [her husband], Donald [her son, my Grandpa] and Danny [my uncle] drove down to Tryconnel after school to see a calf and on road home, Dad [her husband, Clarence] had a heart attack and died in car. Donald, Helene and I went to funeral home later to make arrangements for funeral.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is always interesting to try to read between the lines, since the entries are so matter of fact. About a year before Great Grandfather’s death, my own father had a brush with death, and lived. Here is the journal entry from that day, written by his Grandma:<\/p>\n

April 30, 1956<\/em><\/p>\n

Allan was knocked off his bicycle at 12:10 to-day and very seriously injured. Monica [my grandma, Dad’s mom] went to hospital in the ambulance with him and Donald [Dad’s dad] went later. Jeanette and Danny [dad’s siblings] were here. I had 21 telephone calls. I canned 4 pints of pineapp\"may-be-harvey-william-billie\"<\/a>le.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This spring, death has felt close. Today, my aunt was buried in Ontario. Rest in peace, Aunt Frances. I found this receipt from 1957 for a black dress, and I wondered about the story behind it. I knew my Great … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[81,350,362,416,501,556,704,814],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-2","tag-ancestor","tag-death","tag-document","tag-family","tag-great-grandmother","tag-journal-entry","tag-oldness","tag-rest-in-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}