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Diane Eikenbery
November 9, 2004
Mother and I were saddened by the recent death of “Auntie Dot.” She and Mom were not only cousins, but best of friends. The last time we saw her was at her 80th birthday party at her Walnut Creek home. She seemed well and greeted the guests with enthusiasm. To this day, Mom has a picture of the two of them taken at the party in her living room. When we left that afternoon, we fondly said goodbye never dreaming that this would be the last time we would see her.
She and Mother were best friends growing up together, since their houses were so close. She lived on Albee Street near Henderson when Mom was on Hawthorne and B Streets. This was from the time Mom was in elementary school through high school.
Dot had tuberculosis when she was growing up. My Grandparents (Trygve and Selma Gundersen) thought an extra dose of Vitamin D would help her condition, and she spent a whole summer up at our cabin on Kneeland with her parents, Aunt Dell and Uncle Sig (Grandma’s brother), and her sister Peggy. Nana (Aunt Signy Abrahamsen) had a cabin on adjacent property on Kneeland and it was during this time Dot got acquainted with Guy (Abrahamsen) who she later married. All the sunshine on Kneeland seemed to help Dot and she gradually recovered.
Mom and Dot went on many a picnic down in the Redwoods at campgrounds like Women’s Grove, or up Kneeland. They would change into bathing suits at our cabin and then go down to the swimming hole at Mad River, usually with one of the Abrahamsen boys who did the driving. It was a magical time for Mom.
We have many photos of Mom and Dot together, especially at the cabin. The two were great friends and Dot even visited Mom when she was teaching in the Los Angeles area in later years.
I remember playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey in the upstairs “party” room at the Huntoon house on I Street. And the games of Button Button, who’s got the Button? we played there at a long dinner table just for kids in our best party clothes. We all have wonderful memories of Auntie Dot.
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