KISER MEMORIES
These are some of my memories of Aunt Verla Kiser’s family, the accuracy of which are obviously clouded by my almost 72 years:
We moved to the house on Sharon Amity Rd owned by Mr Neal Craig around 1949 when I would have been around 3. BTW, Bill called me within the last year or so to tell me the house had burned to the ground, intentionally, if I remember correctly, by the fire dept as it had become uninhabitable. The Kiser family had been living in the house, for how long, I don’t know. My understanding is that Uncle Wilkes, who I never met, or if I did, was too young to remember, took his life there shortly after the suicide period in a life insurance policy he’d taken out on himself expired, leaving Aunt Verla, Gene, Syd, Mickey, Mary Lou and Frankie. Aunt Verla, with the insurance proceeds, built a house several blocks away on Windermere Ln and when she moved her family into the new house we moved in to the Craig house.
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