Maywood News

By Loretta Bringer

I feel like the weathercaster reporting each week, however, this weekend brought our first big snow. We had four to four- and one-half inches of wet snow that made everything look like a winter wonderland. Of course the roads were not beautiful, and I want to commend Marion County for getting out early Saturday morning and working on the county roads. The snow did not bother my grandchildren. They had so much fun playing outside and making snow angels and sledding.

It was nice to be back in church today and we had a good attendance. Everyone was happy to be out with people after a week of ice. A planning meeting for the New Year was held after worship since it was cancelled two times because of weather.

I learned of the death of Irma Lou Wiesemann this week. Many in the Maywood area knew her because she was at the LaGrange Bank for years and was the niece of Lula Nunn. Irma looked after Lula in her later years. Aunt Lula as I called her lived next door to us in a house in Maywood that we rented from Evelyn Godman. It had a gas fireplace that was not the norm in Maywood, and we were very happy there. Some said Aunt Lula was a busy body and you will not like it there and that was so wrong. She was a lovely neighbor and I own her rocker that she always sat in reading her Bible. I was canning beets one afternoon and not really doing it right and she came over with a canning cup for the jars that her mother had given her as a wedding present along with a metal measuring cup for two cups. I still have them, and they are over one hundred years old now. She was so happy for me when I had a baby girl because she did not have children and we had been married nine years before Rachel came along.

I had a nice visit with Jason Shoop this week. I reported earlier that he had purchased the home that was the Chambers Funeral Home years ago. He is restoring it and going to live there. He said he had uncovered windows and a few of the windows have a stained-glass border in them. I mentioned that many of the church windows have this design and a number of houses in Maywood had that put into their homes at the time. The church parsonage had a door like that. Growing up in Maywood there were many nice homes that were quite elegant. The Cason home, and the Jackson homes are two of them.

I had written about a task I accomplished in lifting something that I thought at the time was impossible and friend sent me this quote and it is very true. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t – you are right!

Happy Birthday to a good friend – Irene Durst on January 22. She is in church every Sunday and has wonderful family support.