Canada Relatives

Who are the relatives in Canada? Um, my mother's, on my mother's side of the family. Thompson's, the Thompson family. Betty and Billy Thompson. Um, and mother had brothers up there. And, uh, so, um, okay, I think that kind of brings me up to date on the general feeling of family life. Remember you saying that you asked dad, you know, why he The reasons that he married you and he said, the family.

Yeah, he felt such a, well, it was not, that we were all so close and supportive and he, he liked that very much. Now I remember Cousin Webb, but I don't remember Cousin Bob. No, he was the older one and yeah, Webb, I don't remember him being out in Ann [00:07:00] Arbor at a fraternity the way I remember Webb being there.

It became, Daddy's two brothers Cook and Cook were lawyers, and then Bob and Webb became Cook and Cook with lawyers taking over. I have a picture of my, of Daddy's brother. They, Saginaw had pumps for water. You had to go, go to the street to a pump to get water. And they used to, uh, some homes that are more, people that had more money went to, Uh, had a pump at their house.

That was a real treat. Well, they finally got a water system in the Saginaw. And he was very involved in politics. And as long, as well as law. And he, I have a picture of him with a casket parading through town with a pump in the casket. This is your Uncle Rob, right? Uncle Rob, mm hmm. Uncle Arthur. Okay. And they had no children, thank goodness, because they were [00:08:00] both killed in a car crash going between Ann Arbor and Salem.

Yeah, that was very tough. Right, I remember the phone ringing and then hearing, oh no! And I went out the hall from the bedroom and hung over it to listen. And a truck had run into them and they were both killed. And so How old were you then, do you think? I think in junior high or high, they, and uh, so that was, that was really tough.

They were all very close. But that family, back then, the family then seemed, everybody was very religious, the generation, and uh.