Aunt Nettie lived in Paris across Banfield
St. from Grandma and Grandpa Key. She married Jim Taylor and moved to
Flint where he bought some land. They had three children, Harold, Marjorie
and Louise. Harold worked at the Ford Plant designing tools for their
cars.
Harold married Helen. They had two children, Robert, a Physics professor
in the mid-states, and Pat who was married but is now divorced and has
a daughter Susan and lives in Davison near Flint. Marjorie married and
is now quite senile but still alive. She worked for many years for Bell
Telephone Co. She was always nervous and in fact had a "nervous breakdown"
when she was middle aged. However, she laught (sic) about the names of
her two bosses, Mr. Harsh and Mr. Scratch. She worked for Bell all her
life and they retired very generously she thought.
Louise married Carson Hobart and had three children. Jim has some kind
of laser beam factory in California. Audrey married and living in Hawaii,
Mary Jo married and living near Flint in Davison.
Aunt Nettie was a practical fun loving person and very generous. Many
times young cousins went to Flint to live with her. Flint was a thriving
automotive city. General Motors and Ford both had factories there. These
young men lived with her while they found work (i.e. Gordon and Harry
Key and Howard Hoover). Howard Hoover lived in Delhi ( a son of a cousin
of Aunt Netties). He returned to Delhi when he married and made quite
a bit of money growing tobacco, an activity frowned upon by my mother.
He was a clever man quite involved in public life in Delhi. His wife Pearl
was in a retirement home in Delhi until a few years ago and is probably
dead now.
Aunt Nettie's husband Jim Taylor loved an argument and enjoyed cornering
people to expound on his theories of nature. He was an atheist, but Aunt
Nettie stayed close to her church and all of their children were good
church workers. Uncle Jim was a colourful character. One of his theories
I remember was thought provoking. "Nature is going up a blind alley
with the human race. Insects are the upcoming species and will take over
the earth." We visited back and forth with the Flint folk, a visit
there and a return visit from them every summer. Aunt Nettie went her
merry way and seemed to pay little attention to Uncle Jim.
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