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no amount of persuading could bring him to sit with pen and paper. Hedid still like to listen to my mother, and then to me, read to him. He especially enjoyedlistening to us read to him from the Bible. My father was forced to let the bank take possession of most of the acreage6) of his farmlandone year when a crop failure meant he couldnamp。rsquo。t make the mortgage7) payment. He was ableto keep one acre of the farmland where the small farm house was located. From the farm to road building and later to factory work, his hands served him well. His mindwas keen, and his will to work was unsurpassed. His enthusiasm and efficiency brought anoffer to bee a line bossuntil he was handed the qualification test. Years later, when Mother died, I tried to get him to e and live with my family, but heinsisted on staying in the small house with the garden plot and a few farm animals close health began to fail, and he was in and out of the hospital