Visiting in Osceola from Muscatine on Monday, October 17, 1955, Dale wrote, “We made ourselves at home at Mother’s. Dalene and I took a walk in Grand-Dad’s timber on the old Short place. First time I had been in that timber for 36 years. Enjoyed it very much.” That timber had belonged to John Clark Short, Jettie’s father, and must have resembled this:
