Commemorate: 7/7/77

Mary Frances Ingraham Richards:
a gracious lady, a lovely woman, my mother-in-law,
my children's loving grandmother, an accomplished knitter.

She kept her journals in ten cent memo pads.

She died thirty years ago today on 7/7/77
one month shy of her 77th birthday.

Frances you are remembered.

MEMO BOOK

1961

JAN 14,15.

Kate and Hazel
spent the week end
with us. Hazel took
some knitting lessons
from me (such fun)
(had pot roast for Sun.
dinner)

Feb. 5

Pat( grandson Patrick Strohmeyer) was so cute
when he was trying
to talk me into
giving him the
mittens I let him
wear because
his got wet.

(He got them)

(We had oven roast
for dinner)


1969

Sold:

Cap + mittens $2.00

Black men’s mittens $2.00

Mittens to Anna R. $2.00

White sock
to Shirley Selitirar $4.50

Mittens to Wilma $2.00
Mittens to Wilma $2.00

3 doilies to
Mary Leigh $5.00

1 rug to
stranger $5.00
1 rug, Blue Mt. Lake $10.00
*The rugs were crocheted rag strips.

Pillow, Mrs. Kellog $3.00

Boys cap, Mrs. Lorrabee, $4.00

Mittens (Nancy) $3.00

2 pr. gray socks
Mrs. Frank Pratt $8.00
(she bought the yarn)

White pony tail cap
Mrs. Kellogg $3.50

Mittens
Jean Richards $3.00

Sold Irving* (husband) a
blanket $6.00

2caps, Mrs. Larabee $4.00
(she furnished the yarn)
(I charge 4.00 each if I furnish it)

2 grey socks for
Mrs. Pratt. $10.00

Pineapple doily $3.00
Mary Durkin* (niece)

Shiver blanket
to Hazel for Audrey

*A shiver blanket was an afghan crocheted with a strand of yarn and a strand of crochet thread. One of the grandsons dubbed his afghan a shiver blanket. He liked to wrap up in it on cold Adirondack winter mornings.

Afghan to Aunt Jen
(Pat’s Aunt Jen) $15.00


1970

Temp 22 above at 7

Eclipse- not as dark
as the one we saw
at Riverside when the
children were small.