Earl's Parents rented a small place on Valmont road between 26th Street (Now named Folsom) and 28th Street. Earl's sister Faye wasn't in very good Health and lived at home with them. She had many friends and surprised us by Marrying Dewey Hill. They continued to live with Dad and Mother Teets. They had raised and sold vegetables.
Mother Teets was good at selling and Bargaining. When there was something she wanted at the second hand store of Mr. Maupin, she always bargained with him until he came down the amount she felt the article was worth. I think Paul inherited some of her business ability as he could buy - sell - trade at a profit, and enjoyed doing it. As a boy at home Earl disliked selling vegetables. He could deliver orders or help with the planting and care of the growing but disliked the selling part. He could repair machinery, car or gasoline engines or build something. I often thought he should have been a Mechanic or Carpenter.
One of my fondest memories was one Sunday Morning as we were dressing for Church - he looked at me and said, "Mrs. Teets, you look sweet enough to Kiss." I often think back to that precious time.
January 21, 1928. Faye and Dewey became parents of a Baby Girl, Maxine Eleanor, and three days later Faye died - Uremic Poisoning. Faye had very positive ideas as to how her baby would look. Dark eyes and hair the same color as hers but hair Curly like Dewey's. And surely that little girl was exactly like Faye pictured. Mother Teets took care of Baby and Dewey said he would work and take care of them. But he couldn't find work and soon left for California hoping to find work. I suppose he did after a time but he forgot his promise to send money for the support of little Maxine. Mother, Dad, and Baby Maxine lived with us a while. Then Mother got some help from the County to help with Maxine, rented a small apartment in Boulder and managed to live on a very small Income with some help from her sons.
Later that summer Earl went out to work forgetting to take his water bottle. He laid down and drank from a ditch. Soon after, Earl began having pain. We still went to Dr. Roulston the Osteopath. When Earl told him how he was feeling, the Doctor said "Sounds like you might be coming down with Typhoid Fever". When Earl could not do chores and I had to ask Paul for help and told him what the Doctor had said, he insisted I call a Medical Doctor. Earl and I talked it over and decided to call Dr. Carbon Gillispie. He was away at that time so his new assistant came out - Dr. Howard Hueston. He immediately put Earl in hospital and he was there six weeks. Six Dollars a day for Nursing Care in a Semiprivate room. Another Typhoid patient had the adjoining room with a bathroom between the two rooms. The first entry on my medical record, still at the Medical Center, is for Vaccine against Typhoid Fever. Dad Teets came to stay with me and do the chores. I drove into town nearly every day to see Earl. He was so bad he didn't know me. The Doctor told Paul that Earl wouldn't live, but Prayer was answered and he lived.
Soon after Earl came home and before he was strong enough to get out to help with chores, Dad came in one morning in tears - in so much pain he could not do chores. He stayed a short time with Mother and Maxine. Dad Teets became much worse and had to be taken to a Denver Hospital. Prostate Cancer. He died February 7, 1927, only a year and 14 days after Faye died.
Faye Monta had a twin sister Ferne Monett. They were born May 4, 1904, at Plattville, Colorado. When we visited Earl's Family in August of 1922, Ferne seemed in Excellent Health as she prepared to leave Boulder to go to a Nazarene School in California. There she met and married John Stoner. We were shocked when they came to Denver shortly before Faye died to find her so terribly thin and ill. The Doctors decided after many tests and an operation that she had TB of the lining of the stomach. Later they went on to live on a ranch owned by John's Parents - North of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Ferne died June 28, 1930, at a Cheyenne Hospital. She was buried in Green Mountain Cemetery in Boulder on My Daughter's Birthday July 1, 1930.
Mother Teets continued to care for Maxine until Mother died October 27, 1938 - Maxine was 10 years old January 21, 1938. Friends of the Family, Mr. and Mrs. William Niesler, Adopted Maxine and she grew up as Maxine Niesler. She is married to Willard Moore and lives in Bird City, Kansas. They had three children: Larry, Sondra, and Gary. Larry has four children; their Mother Beth has left them. Sondra married Scott Phillips and has two sons. Gary and Mary had twins but lost them, then had a little girl.