Chapter 13
MARY GEIGLEY'S HOUSE
We moved to this NEST on
August 5, 1936. I have a record of leaving there on April 1, 1937, making this
about an eight-month stay.
About the time I had first
worked for Uncle Amos, I quit the factory. Now I began to work for him
full-time. He employed other men and built five more houses in Akron, one at
Denver and did much repair work. In 1936 I helped to build the new Ephrata
Mennonite Church at Oak Street and Sunset Avenue in Ephrata. Amos agreed to
take the job if one of the members, Harvey Sauder, would leave his job with A.
L. Gerhart to be superintendent. Amos was senior pastor and later the Bishop of
the District. He had too much other work to superintend the building himself.
Mary Geigley's Apartment
Right after New Year of 1937
Papa told me that he had found a man who would loan him $2000.00 to build a house
for Ada and me. Papa thought that we should not need to move so often. He said
that if I could come up with a plan for a small house that could be built for that amount we could
build it before April 1st. I drew up plans that stayed within the limits. Papa knew of a lot for sale on Bethany Road and bought it. Now I took off
a few months and we built a brick bungalow near Ephrata.
We started construction on
Feb. 17.