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"I REMEMBER MAMA AND ttUUf"
GLORIA TRAVlCK UCEmARUT
When I was 10 years old nor Mother died on August 7, 1936 at the age of 39. Although her death certificate reads "Asthma, Acute - Ovarian Cyst" I have always felt the cause of her death was post-operative peritonitis because of the reports I have heard from other f&mily members of her distended, painful abdomen and very high fever. Of course, this was before the discovery of sulfa and penicillin. Biis tragedy was 55 years ago but I remember it as though it happened yesterday. Our Father did not allow me and Andre? attend her funeral because he vented to "spare" us that grief but until this day I regret that I was not allowed to say Goodbye .
I do though remember many happy times with her. Jay thinks I remember being bom but in reality I think ny earliest memory is of the September 1929 hurricane. We lived at that time in a lar-ge house on Hayne Blvd. and I must have been about 2 1/2 ? IW-s was before the depression and Daddy must have done very well before the crash. I remember that we had a maid, I had a nurse, and Mama had a towncar and chauffer in those days. We also had one of the very first "Frigidairs" and a very big Victrola. There was a grocery next door - the Gallatys who had a monkey named Joco and they allowed me free reign whenever Ntama and I walked to the store.
Bouy and his friends Henry Larose and Howard Casey would sometimes visit after a game of golf while still wearing their knickers. Wie only time I can recall being spanked by Mama was the day I tried to play the Victrola while Mama was tathir^ and I dropped a huge stack of records - one of which was "Bye, Bye Blackbird", This was the "big house? era.
All of this affluency was short lived	and vw	apparently lost the	house	and everything
else arri moved to a house that Daddy had converted	from a postoffice next to	the Citrus Pimp-
ing Station on Hayne Boulevard. Most of ny fond memories with Mama were while living here.
When Daddy had finished LSU in suf^ur chemistry he had gone to Little Woods to see if sugar cane could be grown in the area. He worked for a land development company and had become one of the partners. Everything went under in 1929 or 30. While living in Crystal Springs, Miss, my Grandfather Trawick had been teacher, mentor , and close friend of U.S. Senator Pat Harrison who managed to secure for Daddy a goverrment contract to build a radio station (airplanes- not music) in Little Woods and Mobile. This was to support planes using the new Shushan Airport (now New Orleans Airport). Shortly after this Samuel Zemur-ray bou^it the property at Little Woods and Caddy remained in his employ until his death.
Our House "by the pump" was large so Kfema boarded the radio operators to make ends meet. Their names were "Pence","Pursley? and "Beckett". Our Aunt El vie and Grandmother Blanchard were living with us at the time so this is how Pence and El vie met.
We vrere very popular in those days. At one time or smother while living thert El vie, Grandmother Blanchard (Mere), Uncle Zief, Uncle Jeff and Aunt Nbrgie had stayed with us. . Friends and relatives visited almost every	Sunday	and left with milk,	eggs,	butter, fresh
meat, and vegetables since we lived in the	country and raised our own	food.	Andre and I
were completely oblivious of a depression and realize now how fortunate we were then when Jay tells of those difficult times living, in the city.
It was while living here that I started school and couldn't wait to get off the bus to run inside for the dinner plate ffema had saved for me in the top compartment of the wood stove. There was no TV in those days but we had great fun playing namy, word ^mes, work-ir^ jig-saw arri other puzzles, and listening to the radio. Caddy was always clever with his hands and had made beautiful doll furniture and a wagon for me and Andre to ride in while pulled by a huge billy goat. Once Pence arri Daddy had nade a tremendous kite of kraft paper. It mjst have been at least 5 feet tall. It took both of them to fly it. Frequently Zief would baby-sit n? arri Andre while the others went to a movie. We would have a ball!