PLAIN VIEW FARM and STADEM
SAGA
(A) PEARL'S VARIOUS
STORIES
THE PHONE CALL TO PLAIN VIEW
FARM,
PAPA'S HEART CHANGE,
AND PEARL'S TRIP TO SOUTH
DAKOTA
"And what do you suggest I should do?" I
asked Pastor Gudmunsen. He said, "We've got to get
to a telephone and call your dad." He had the
number, but we didn't have a phone yet. We had been
in the cabin such a short time, from the fall until
January. Anyway, we went to Mrs. Bauer who lived
down below the hill. She let us use her phone. And
I called Papa. And I said, "Papa, this is Pearl, I am
just calling you back." "Oh really? You're calling
me?" he said. "Yes." See, we never had a phone on
the farm, so that was all new to him. And he said,
"Pearl, I hope that you won't have any hard feelings
about anything." "Of course not, I won't." I surely
wouldn't. HE GOT THE MESSAGE! I knew right then and
there, it had to have taken both Bob and Art. It
wouldn't have been enough if little Joyce had been
taken. It wouldn't have been enough. There had to
be two.
"I suggested to Papa, "As soon as I can,
I'll get on the train. When is the funeral?" "The
15th of January." "I'll get on the train, and I'll
get someone to take me there, and it will all work
out." When I got on the train I even saw the
telegram, that I would be picked up at Bristol. Here
when I got off the train, I had a smile on my face,
and they couldn't get over that. Because I was so
relieved to think that Papa had made a change, and so
when I got in the car they said, "You can't believe
what a change has come over Papa! Oh, we just can't
get over it. He's hugging people, kissing
people"--which he never would have done otherwise. God gave
him the grace, and showed him, because he reminded me
not to have any hard feelings. Because he told me, I
knew he had got the message. He had such love for
both Bob and Art. When Bob would write, he would
say, "Your pal Bob," and Papa would write, "Your pal
Alf." He had the same love for Art. When I got
there, he even hugged me, which he hardly ever
did.
"[Before this change in him from the
taking of Bob and Art,] my mother could hardly take
it at times, because he wouldn't let her go into the
Hestads' store. "You're not going into the Dahls'
store any more, no way!" He was against them too.
And it was hard on them, they must have sensed it,
that something had happened, that he was that way.
Satan works overtime. He thought he could have
Papa."
Copyright (c) 1997, Butterfly Productions
PLEASE GO NEXT TO PEARL'S ACCOUNT OF THE
PLANE BEING TAKEN ON ITS LAST FLIGHT BY BOB AND
ARTHUR, THEN FOLLOWED BY THE FUNERAL SERVICE, AND
FINALLY HOW THE WIDOW SETTLED UP WITH THE AIRCRAFT
DEALER
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Plain View Farm
Master Directory
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it
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Plain View Farm Road
Map
Pearl's Stories
Central
Tribute To Pearl
Papa's Letter on Events of
1946-47
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