1946 (Sunday) – Seems like it is impossible for me to keep up with my writing, but I have been so busy especially with typing copies of the pageant, attending practices, etc. Miss Margetts (Minnie Margetts) is certainly taking an interest in the pageant and is doing her best to make it a success, it has been marvelous how she has chosen those who are taking part. At Fast Meeting, a returned soldier bore his testimony. In looking at him I thought Oh there’s our Henry. When I met Sister Margetts after meeting, she had secured him for the part. Earlier, she passed a boy (rather a young man) in the Hall who spoke to her, and she asked him to take the part of Tom, he is willing and then she found he was real interested in dramatics and he surely takes his part well. She met another young man and asked him to be the messenger, behind the veil, and he too is very good and so it has gone on.
Della (Della Lunt) has continued to be very miserable, so on the 17th Lillian (Lillian Lunt) went out to stay with them.
Sunday the 20th, I went to Sunday School at ten o’clock and didn’t get home until after four o’clock, had been to a practice, when I reached home, Father (Alfred Oscar Lunt) told me Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) had called to say that Della was at the hospital and had given birth to a stillborn daughter (Joyce Gabbitas), Dad and I went to the hospital to see her. She looked miserable, as she had been crying so much. We went out to the home to tell the news to Lillian and the children (Ivy Joan, Gordon Lewis, Larry Lunt, Judith Ann and Ted Lunt Gabbitas). They looked sober for a little while, then Ivy Joan said to be “Grandma, maybe it is best as it is, rather than having the baby come home and live with us for a while and then dying in the home.” I assured her it was. Later, Chip came to me and made the same observation, adding “You know our neighbors, the Wright’s, had a baby and then later it died”. I think sometimes children are greater philosophers than the grownups.
Loony Lunts and Company 