Two Noras: January 6, 1919 and January 6, 2025

Nora Bauer: Monday, January 6, 1919

Warmer today and snowed quite a little this morning. Polly died this afternoon about 4:30 and it sure made me feel bad when I heard it. She was sick about a week. Started with the Flu and went into pneumonia. Ex President Roosevelt died the morning about 4:15. 

Nora Spitznogle: Monday, January 6, 2025

Today is the one year anniversary of Mom's death. Aaron and I left at 6:30 AM to drive downtown to Second Helpings to deliver meals. It was actually fun and I was happy that Aaron drove the work van. I napped when we got home. It snowed 10 inches in the last 24 hours. 

What a heavy day for Grandma Nora. I'm sure that she saw parallels between Polly and herself. They were both the same age, Catholic, and had soldier sweeties. 

Here is Polly's death notice. And how sad that her husband was in France at the time. I think there is a Minneman connection with the Spitznogle family. I couldn't find it after a quick search. 

The President Roosevelt that Nora mentioned was Theodore, our 26th president. Women weren't allowed to vote until 1920...I wonder if she even followed politics. Although I'm sure she was following the war closely. 

Last year Indianapolis only registered just a little over 13 inches of snow. Today's snow total is nine inches. Aaron and I left my house (about 6 miles from Second Helpings) at 6:00 AM. The drive was slow and the windows kept icing over, but we got there just fine. Many of the partner agencies that receive meals from us were closed, but two crews of us delivered meals to 12 residential and emergency shelter partners. It was a little scary plowing through the streets but fun too. And people were happy to see us! 

Since we were out and about we drive around the neighborhood. We were excited to see that KFC was open. We ordered a bucket of chicken with mashed potatoes and ate sitting on Aarons sofa. 

I headed home (next door) after lunch and took a long nap. I spent over an hour shoveling my walk and the neighbor's and part of my driveway. 

It was a lovely day of feeling like I accomplished something.