Yarnall Genealogy
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| Hollidaysburg 1958-1959 After we married in June 1958, we moved into a second floor of a house owned by a widow named Mrs. Griffith at 718 Clark Street in Hollidaysburg, PA. It was in the Sylvan Hills section of Hollidaysburg. A red heart shows its location in the map below. |
Below is a picture of the house where our apartment was. Here are some prices for that year. Polly worked at Gables Department Store in Altoona as an artist during these years. She did some great posters for their display windows one year. She usually did the ads for women's clothing and accessories. |
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| Altoona 1959-1964 We moved from our Clark Street apartment on July 8, 1959 into a fixer-upper home at 313 31st Street in Altoona, PA. It had overgrown shrubbery that we removed. |
Below see the red heart in the map. We moved about 6 miles north up Rt 36 (shown on both maps) to our first house. We will be listed in the 1960 census at 313 31st Street. Click here for more about the Columbia Park area of Altoona. |
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| We changed the exterior color. Polly
did most of the painting inside and I painted the outside. She planted flowers and I cut the grass with a push mower - no
power mower. The window at the upper right rear in the above picture was removed to give that bedroom more wall space. Polly became a mother in April 1960. She was a very dedicated mother and a diligent homemaker for her children and her husband. We did not own a dishwasher. Our clothes washer was a wringer type that jammed often when the diapers would get caught on the rollers. After I started with IBM in 1962 we no longer had a company car. We got another Corvair. In 1963 we designed and constructed a play area for our children behind the garage . |
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| Falls Church/Rockville 1964-1967 At first when IBM transferred me to its Washington DC office we lived in a ground floor apartment in Falls Church, VA. There was a swimming pool that Polly could use. She loved to swim. She taught Louise and Steve to swim. After we bought a new house in Rockville, MD, we were able to entertain friends. Polly was a super hostess. Polly had a touch with gardening - especially flowers. Our place looked great. She made draperies and clothing for our children too. In 1964 we had some fun on a trip to visit with my Aunt Sarah in Hilton Head, SC. |
| Richmond 1967-1969 When I was promoted I was sent to the IBM Richmond, VA office. At first we lived in a low income apartment near where our new home was being built. Polly had no neat conveniences. It was tight quarters for a few months. Our new house was full of great conveniences and it had plenty of space. Polly was an even more accomplished hostess for family and friends. She furnished and decorated the bedrooms for Steve and Louise in a special way to make both rooms a neat refuge for them. She was involved with the Children's Theater group and designed the sets for a production called Pinocchio and a production called The Dancing Donkey. She planned great trips for the family. We had a big 1969 Chrysler with an 8-track tape player. We listened to our favorite music on those trips throughout VA and the Carolinas. Polly had a good sized garden in the back yard and we grew a record sized pumpkin (2 foot diameter) that rode in the back seat of our car when we drove to our new home in NJ. |
Cherry Hill 1969-1990 with children We moved from Richmond, VA when I left IBM to head up the data processing subsidiary of an actuarial company in Philadelphia. We moved to a great home in Cherry Hill, NJ. Polly, the super hostess, was in greater demand because our relatives were near us. Above is a picture of her mother visiting with Polly and Louise at dinner. She made sure Christmas and birthday parties were celebrated as very happy events. Someday the census records for the years of 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010 will become public and we will be shown in the household at 148 Weston Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ. |
She was very supportive of Louise, Steve, and Brad with their activities and schooling. I am sure our children would agree with me when I say she was the best mother in the world. She managed to get Louise and Steve to attend church regularly. She arranged for their music lessons too. |
 Above you can see her shoveling the snow to clear our driveway. This happened a few times when I was in Myrtle Beach playing golf. In the background is the house across the street where one of our very good friends lived - Grace and Andy Horodysky. |
Cherry Hill 1990-2002 after children Polly wanted to be busy - not idle. She
did not want to go back to the design and art field. She took a real estate training program to get her license. It was not an easy course and she passed the exams with flying colors after a lot of study. She worked very hard as an agent for a 9 months. She held many open houses and made many phone calls. She did not like all of the driving involved to take prospects to see different houses. One other discouraging aspect of the job was there were some stolen prospect situations. Other agents would answer calls from her prospects. Rather than let Polly know about the call, they would help the prospect and get the sale. |
One day she interviewed at JC Penny for a sales position. She had worked at a department store in the summer during her art school years (1953-1957) so she felt comfortable with the idea. After an almost overwhelming first month of new processes and unexpected assignments (putting incoming stock on shelves that required climbing a ladder) plus having to run the vacuum cleaner in a non-salaried job, she wondered if she should stay. Polly was never a quitter. Even when she had some very overbearing young uneducated managers. She persevered from 1990 until her retirement in 2002. Fortunately the store was being closed or she would have gone longer than that because she was a very determined and conscientious person. |
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