*Al = Aileen Phillips
Moore

April 28, 1988                      

This afternoon is letter writing time and I$2$ $$ am glad I went to mail box before beginning your letter....have one from you.

I am a bit uncertain about birth year of two daughters-in-law. Expect to have the entire clan together this weekend and will get the information you asked for.

Lowry, I do not remember year the reunion was at Dad and Mom Phillips$3$ $$. Will research that. I did find the picture made then. Also I can't give dates last reunions was held here in Mississippi. There was one at Sardis and one at Senatobia.

I am so excited Judy$4$ $$ will come with you. Back to reunion dates here, the last two were after Paul's$5$ $$ death in 1969.

The good Lord willing I well meet you in Senatobia. Just how many and who of the boys and families will be there is not definite.

Harden$6$ $$ and his wife Fran are sales representatives for children's clothing and are on the road a great deal. Left Easter Sunday for Lexington, Ky., and that Wednesday night drove down to Atlanta for show beginning next morning. Came back here about 13th or 14th and a day or two later had show here. They are due back tomorrow evening from Memphis.

For years I had urged AL$7$ $$ to write what she knew about the families, Phillips and Shanahan. If she did, I do not know where it might be. Did Guy$8$ $$ send you any information? I do not know that he knows much more than I do as he had not been around, except to visit, since going into the service in World War II. He is not very family closeness oriented.

This has been such a beautiful spring. Azaleas, camellias, dogwoods and redbuds have been gorgeous. Our winter was cold at times but only a few snowflakes. In January everything above ground was coated with ice...beautiful..for about three days.

Lowry, I am changing my address to post office box. The apartment complex, 10 townhomes and 10 smaller apartments, is in bankruptcy. The mortgage holder has advised that tenants be looking for other living sites within next six months. The morgage company is hopeful the complex will be sold to investors who will convert into condominiums.

Paul and I had talked about locating in Jackson when we retired. My decision was a sensible one...two sons here. The boys and their families are the only kin I have in Mississippi. Had I stayed in Tunica I would have been dependent upon friends in case of emergencies. AL$7$ $$ did not understand my leaving Tunica after more than 43 years.

AL$7$ $$ and Jim$9$ $$ should have had someone with them for a number of years ...five or six. Friends and relatives were preparing meals and caring for them in so many ways. Guy and Pat came once, sometimes twice, a year for four or five days. Before I moved I suggested Guy encourage them to find someone to live with them. He did not believe this necessary and as an in-law I could do nothing.