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...hardly accidental that J.B.'s salvation was manifested in the return of his wife to "blow on the coal of the heart." MacLeish had been married since 1916 to Ada Hitchcock, his childhood sweetheart in Glencoe, Ill. (She survives him, as do two children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.) Ada also dominates MacLeish's last book of poems, The Wild Old Wicked Man (1968). "Ah, but a good wife!" he wrote. "To lie late in a warm bed/ (warm where she was), with your life/ suspended like a music in the head...
Survivors include his wife Catherine, three sons, a daughter, a step-daughter, 15 grand-children, and five great-grandchildren. A memorial service has not yet been scheduled...
...backstreets of Xian. A young girl stands by the public water well getting water for her family. An old woman washes her extended family's clothes in a metal tub. Another woman shreds cabbage and slices vegetables in preparation for the evening meal. A grandmother sits watching her grandchildren play as she mends shoes, and a man hunches over a chair he is mending. It is the quietest time of the day. Families sit together outside their homes, the women sewing and the men playing board games on the sidewalk...
...option, she lives and works off-reservation most of the year, as she has since she ran away from a reservation-based Catholic boarding school at 14. Most summers, though, when the one-room log cabin behind her grandparents' house is habitable, she returns, as do many of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren living off-reservation, to see her sisters and help the old couple run things...
...addition to his wife. Claflin is survived by three daughters, 16 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held today at 11 a.m. at the Story Chapel. Mt. Auburn Cemetery...