Interview with Lois Beville Cone 41
March 30, 1995



0: How did they occupy their time? Did any of them have after school jobs, or did they work
 with their father?

C: The boys worked at the laundry with their father. And one summer, Tommy worked with a
 roofing company. They worked every summer, they just did not sit around. He worked with a roofing company, but most of the time, they worked there at the laundry, driving trucks or picking up dirty laundry or working on a route. Susan and Celia worked at home, and helped
 with the housework, even though I had a cook, they helped with the housework.

O Did you have the same cook for an extended time?

C: I did. The last one I had was Ida. She worked for me until Tommy was 25, she worked for
 me 26 years. And the dearest person, a real person.

0: What was her name?

C: Ida Hall.

0: Is she still living?

C: No.

O: What were her duties, beside a cook? Did she have anything else to do beside the cooking?

C: To take care of Tommy. She was his second mother. When I would go off on a trip with
 Fred or anything, Ida would just come and stay in the house with the children.

0: So she would run the whole household while you were gone?

C: Yes.

O: Did you and your husband do a lot of traveling?

C: Well, yes and no, we did. You know we went on trips and went to laundry conventions and
 in the summer, and when my children were small, mother and daddy had built a house out at Kingsley Lake, so in the summer, my sister Ethel, my sister Nathalie and myself, we would go out there with our children and stay all summer. And at that time, there was Camp Blanding, and Nathaline's husband was in the Navy, so she had access to Camp Blanding, so we could go over there to the picture show and go shopping at the commissary. Then mother and daddy built a home in Waynesville, and I would usually go every summer and stay a month up there, with Ida to take care of Tommy. Then Fred and I went on a couple of

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