Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
handed him the certificate.
isnl t he?
And this Lindley, I guess he's a florist,
Q. Yes. He was the present florist's father. Were they a singing
pup? Is that what you said? You mntioned that they'd entertained you
with singing. Did the four of them sing together?
A. Oh, no. There was just one, Mr. Burns, who was the swer. He was a
trained singer, and thatls the occasion, I guess. They escorted him the~e.
I don' t remember too mch about that really. I guess I had so mny other
thingJ cm&g on mind. There was a Navy nurse who c m here and was
having her furlough. She gave n-e a lot of informtion about what I should
take with m, what -I should do and so on.
Q. What was some of her advice? Can you remerrber?
A. No. (chuckles)
Q. Long underwear?
A. Well, we got that in our outfitting in San Francisco. But the ftr lined
coats never came. They were sent to Syria instead of Siberia, we newer got
use of: them. But there were a couple of fl*r lined khaki cloth color coats
in our post office--we had a post office in our building for our Red Cross
personnel in Vladivostok-that we could borrow, but we ha8 to sim our
lives away almst to get them. And then, you know, e to bring them
back. We lived right Ln that building where the ce was. At least
our pup dld. Well, that's getting off into Vladivostok. Well, now, do
you want to hear all that happened in San Francisco and thkgs like that?
Q. Yes. How did you get to San Francisco? 1
A. Train. And it took practically three days on the tr&n from Spningfield
to San Francisco.
Q. Did you travel as a group?
A. No. Alone. I went flrst to Chicago and there I had som mre people
at the traln to met re and rece%ved flowers and what not. When I lert
here, diary tells m that family were all there and all these friends.
"Although it was pouring down rain, Dr. Hewlitt took cw to the
train." Also, I was livingwith the knkels at that
Dr. Henkel's grandmother's house. She was a widow
sister lived who was married to Dr. Hewlitt. Dr.
on the northeast comer of Washington and Sixkh
was an elder in our church.
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We had a male quartet in the Mrst Christian Church. Bow Dr.
Dr. Henkel--the father-and the ppndfather of the prese* Dr.
and a Mr. Anderson, a school principal, and F'r& Drake,
principal, were a quartet, a sh-igFng quartet. It was vem, very godd in
our church.