A Nanny

After James died, Edgar Ezell became Annabelle’s doctor.
My father came to visit and saw how much help she was to me with the two children, Jim, just turned two and Carolyn just eight. I could not afford to pay Annabelle, and she had to work. So, my father offered to pay her if she would stay on with us. That arrangement lasted for about a year, I think, and then she moved to Dallas with her sister.
Sometimes on the weekend she took Jim with her for the week-end to Dallas. When Jim was only two, I think, we'd be getting ready to go somewhere and he would say , "Well, My-m not going !" When I could, I let him stay at home.
He adored Annabelle. She never said "No" to him. She became his "Nanny,” I guess.
We have kept in touch over the years. She always calls at Christmas time. She married after she left, to a man named Robert Louis Shelton, and took his name. In my address book, I still have her under Fagan since that name comes to mind much easier than Shelton. (Now she is in a nursing home in Texarkana, where her nieces look after her. We've always been like family. I would like to go to see her this spring…)