In her notes on the last week of January 1983, she notes an awful experience within a family close to our family. A young man in that family had been drinking and driving. He hit and killed another young man (only 29) who had stopped to help a woman whose car was stalled in the rode. “Her door was open and the man was behind the door.” The driver in question “hit the open door and threw the man up against his own car several feet ahead.” She noted in her journal how upset the young drunk driver’s family was.
In typical fashion, Mom focused her energy in the wake of the news. She spent much of Saturday cleaning house, then took food to the family of the drunk driver. It was a busy day for Dan as well. He helped his German teacher move, then went to a football game, then came home, cleaned up and on to go to a skating party. She also noted all the tasks Dad knocked out through the day around car repair and some crafts work.
That Sunday (30 Jan) was Grammy Miller’s birthday so they spoke on the phone. Next came the list of tasks accomplished in her matter-of-fact style: “Went to church, had family scripture study, wrote to Mike and Lisa, made pepper steak and rice for supper, choir practice, gave the scripture and prayer in Relief Society today, rested.”
In typical fashion, Mom focused her energy in the wake of the news. She spent much of Saturday cleaning house, then took food to the family of the drunk driver. It was a busy day for Dan as well. He helped his German teacher move, then went to a football game, then came home, cleaned up and on to go to a skating party. She also noted all the tasks Dad knocked out through the day around car repair and some crafts work.
That Sunday (30 Jan) was Grammy Miller’s birthday so they spoke on the phone. Next came the list of tasks accomplished in her matter-of-fact style: “Went to church, had family scripture study, wrote to Mike and Lisa, made pepper steak and rice for supper, choir practice, gave the scripture and prayer in Relief Society today, rested.”
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