Blanche Alaura Schuler

Blanche had an auburn cast to her dark hair. On the eve of her marriage to Isaac Truman Schuler, she told her mother she did not want to marry Truman. They did marry and shook the dust of Kansas off their shoes and made their home in Los Angeles in the ritzy Wilshire district. Uncle Truman was a motorman like Charles Hatch and we all got together there in 1947. Business-like Blanche bought a court, which is a main two-storie house facing a walkway with bungalows to rent out on each side. Blanche liked MONEY. Mary Queen was their only child, a petite, pretty brunette. Her first husband was Bob. It seems Blanche treated him badly and a divorce ensued. She married a blonde hunk, Cliff Riggs and had a son. When I was in L.A., July areturning from Oahu and expecting Mike, she asked me my choice of names. I had Mike named when I saw "Four Daughters" at age 14. Lo and Behold, their son born on St. Anthony's Day in June was named Michael Anthony! Cliff showed me around L.A. and we saw the facade on "Tara", a set from Gon with the Wind still standing. The Schulers had visited us in Kansas City in 1929. There are pictures and a picnic, of course. Mary Queen predeceased her parents. Iva and Ed persuaded Blanche and Truman to return to Kansas City to live with them. These sisters clashed and the Schulers bought a house across the street from the Stieglitzes. Both lived into their nineties, the oldest Graham girl outlived her sibings, dying in February 1986. Aunt Mary's step-daughter-in-law, Madelaine arranged to put her into a home in Bonner Springs, Kansas, where she died at age 94. (Wow!)

Above written by Dorothy Nugent Hatch