Photo by Zen Page 24 Previous Page Next Page Grace remembered two roofers working on the garage. One said to her, “You’re looking fuller in the face.” She did not appreciate that comment until he told her, “I’m Fuller.” “ . . . the responsibility of caring for the family became too much for Grace . . . when Father realized it, he brought us down to Pasadena to stay in the Hotel Green.” “But later years at Big Bear were such fun. We loved it with a proprietary sense. It was Our Place! When we first lived  in the cabin on Lakeview (which Irving built) we had kerosene lamps, cooked on the wood stove . . . washed on an old board in a big wash tub in the yard, and ironed with flat irons heated on the wood stove. Of course, I was too little to do much of the work.” “Well do I remember Daddy coming in from the back cabin about 6:00 each morning, getting a dishpan and a big spoon and banging an accompaniment to his solo of “Oh, Susannah, now don’t you cry for me---” No sleeping ‘til 9:00 a.m. in his family!”