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Kathy's Holiday Season

This season Kathy Peteroff didn't do all that much. Most of her time was spent sewing right up until Christmas. A few days before Christmas she took out the old plastic tree and decorated it, then she cleaned the house and started hanging and writing Christmas cards. Kathy also attended both Christmas programs, the school's and the city's, to watch the children perform plays and sing songs. On Christmas eve, around 11:45 P.M., she and her family, along with most everybody else in town, went to church. After it was over she and her family went home to open presents and go to bed. The next day she woke up early and started cooking dinner. In between mixing and baking she called friends and relatives to say Merry Christmas.

After Christmas was all over, things went back to normal for a while, until Slavik came. Kathy spent a few days of Slavik here in Marshall and then decided to fly up to Russian Mission for the rest of it. She had fun visiting and following the star, and says she misses living there. The trip was mostly for fun, something to do to get away from the normal flow of life. She was there for three days and then came back to Marshall. After that she didn't do much besides just wait for school to start again.


By: Kathy Peteroff
Interviewed by: Ben Peteroff
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