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                   amily records of Helen Crawley Holden now deceased.

Dick writes: A strange accident. Lyman was coming home from work. He had a pipe out of the back window and thru his window. It was night, and it was late, and he may have been drunk. The pipe worked it way out of the back window and hit a parked car. The force swung the pipe in front and killed Lyman. The car drove itself for some distance and finally came to rest in a driveway. I didn't ever feel close to him or Millie.

Betty writes: I can remember how devistated Millie was when Lyman died. The funeral was terrible for her, she literally lost it. Dad and Uncle George had to hold her by her bent arm and carry her off of the ground as she tried to walk and couldn't. He wasn't too great to her. Stepped out on her, she would tearfully call Dad and he would go and try to comfort her and talk to Lyman. Lyman would change for a while. His car lot was along Figeroa (?) Street. Bad part of town, a lot of Mexican's, etc. I don't remembrer a building there, lots of cars, and lots of men hanging around. Dad thought he was the best mechanic in the world. He always had lots of work. Very handsome man, excellent dancer, smelled like a mechanic. Dad loved Lyman.