In November, 1961, Jim was transferred to the Arrow shirt plant in Bremen, GA, about 60 miles west of Atlanta. We sold our house in Atlanta and bought a small brick house in Bremen. It was smaller than our house in Atlanta but on a much larger lot and no hills. I remember the bedrooms were very small. The kitchen had red brick tile floor and it was easy to clean. We had our first clothes dryer and it was great in the winter. Ronnie was in the first grade and walked home from school which was about a mile away. A big bulldog ran out to the street one day and bit him on the leg. After that he chose a different route to get home.
Soon after we moved to Bremen, we had our one-car garage enclosed to make a den. The carpenter put plaster over the brick wall and told us to let it dry over the week-end and then he would paint it. I had to work that Sat. and Ronnie and his friend Jimmy Winchester played with darts while I was gone to work (Jim was sleeping late) and their sharp tipped darts would miss the paper target they taped to the wall, and there were holes all over the wall when I got home at noon. The carpenter had to come back and put more plaster on the wall. This room made the house seem so much larger. To gain more storage space, we had a small wooden storage building built behind the house. It looked like an "outhouse". We quickly put up a wooden fence and planted tall shrubs by the fence to hide the storage building from the street. We lived there for about 2 years until we decided we needed to go back to Atlanta for James to receive therapy and schooling at the Atlanta Cerebral Center near Emory. Jim went back to Cluett Peabody (Arrow Shirt Co) in East Point, GA and we bought a house in Decatur and moved back in the fall of 1963.
I worked at West Georgia College in Carrollton, as Assistant to the Registrar while we were living in Bremen. We were living in Bremen when my mother died in April 1963. Most of my friends were from Carrollton except people I met at church in Bremen.
