I thought that this morning I would share a little story from Aunt Twila's oral history. This story kind of shows what a special character she was. We told the story at our last regular reunion held in the Lava Church two years ago.
"When Gertrude was sick we all went down to take care of her. See we took turns. Fay went down and I took care of you (Sherry). You know, we lived at 935 N. Hays. Bud and I lived in one side and Faye and Ardell lived in the other side."
"When Faye was down there, (Taking care of her sister Gertrude) she left me a fish to take care of. I didn't like cleaning them fish. One day I just flushed it down the toilet. I just flushed it right down the toilet. When she came home I said, "Your fish is dead." and I says, "You can go down, I'll buy you any fish you want but I says, I just couldn't stand to clean them."
The funny part of this story is that when Fay tells it she says that she took care of Twila's fish and when Twila tells it she says that she took care of Faye's fish. What a couple of characters they were and oh how we miss them.
The picture is of Sherry, Faye, and Bruce at the Pocatello Duplex on North Hayes, at about the time of the fish story.
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