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Show 1 2 The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday. July 8, 1973 A Time to Live: These 5 Discovered Happiness in Retirement By Bob Walton in verse and premier! he which she calls her Morm to Hie Lons P.oach, poem, book of life, by writing. "As Calif., women who complained time for mv retirement drew this column devotes too much near 1 anticipated it as ! to would the next chapter in a re- unhappy good book tiremenl amt ft Here are the last three all but ignores verses of her poem those who find Light years have passed joy and satissmee I graduated faction in their final years: from the job and things related. For the other side of was not a My adjustment space the picture) read chore, todays column as it fairly oozes with the happy was ready the day before' No jangling alarm dock starts m day. so early I cannot Why I n-1 side of the story. Since the column about the Long Beach wife appeared a few weeks ago the mail has been heavy with stones from ' tho'-- who have found new and unexpected happiness in their say. Busier than any employed jerk. How did I have time for This life without the work restraint Will get from me no loud complaint. Retirement, is the The fact she had to sell her m no way dampens her spirits She calls riding the some buses a "circus as tell all their aches and pains And the questions they ask the drivers! 1 hope to write about them some day car I find most at- tractive. My adjustment was retroac- tive Mrs B II , of Long Beach, has been retired 12 years and a widow for 2H year-- . She has become a veteran bus rider and likes to talk about it I had a hard life on a homestead in Colorado " she I am wrote rich now with a small income, a place to live, enough to eat ol simple foods and enough clothes io wear Sunday is her big dav with church first and la'er nrnnv places lo go with the .ill t . nt unlimited bus pass. She aNo to fish oft a pier, hut hl-e- s . later vears says "helping others most important goes to prove happiness is a state of mind It nd now to the 7i- - ear-olwho has lost three husbands. Mrs I, V R of Phoenix Am her first husband died in 1930 I raised ihem my self died and they grew into wonderful young people. I remarried twice after they were grown but it seemed it was not for me. That is just one of .hose thinqs. None had a particularly but in their final years they have all found happiness So could timusands of others if they would give it a try I am envying my retireshe wrote, "and canment. not understand why so many in the older bracket feel just a little sorry lor tnemsehes I go out almost every day witn friends or do volunteer work and am enjoying life so much " Q I always thought a person stopped paving Social Security when he worked after fii Now. I find deductions are being taken from a friend who is still working ts there any way he can get a cheek for those payments At what age tan employers stop em p oves' Mrs A. F . Barry. incomes Each Christmas she spends with her son and his wife in California and summers she heads for Montana to be with her daughter. So there they are. thumbnail sketches of five women living in Minneapolis, Tulsa, Long Beach. Tucson and Phoenix. at age 3fi and her oldest daughter passed away at the same age in ltjis Those 'vents in themselves would test the fortitude of most, but shis- made of strong stuff. she was left with three when her fust husband chil-die- , easy-life- YOl SI101LD KNOW reporting : employer can stop reporting the wages of a worker Don t Conblame somu! Security the made mbs gress (Having trouble managing lo make ends meet in retirement? Send .V) cents and a - rgl lira - street. Suite 301, Praiill age, Kansas titt20S, W. 7th rie I! Vi ' '1 fy iin $msmm Minn xnvnne who works in redespite his age. must pay Ins share of Social Security taxes even though he may be collecting benefits There is no age when an stamped long 1 tirement. , envelope for a ropy of Bob Walton's bulletin on retirement budgets. Send to: Bob Walton. HOW TO PRFPUU: BUM. IT A KLTIRI.MLVT VM) SUL MONEY, 22111 W. 4 .. r qp fVk t,y it" w rife' SMrprm $s $ I wmm mfii Tff 32 vA However, four of the letters were from widows, including one who has buried three husbands! Husbands, beware, as there could be a subtle message here! One who WTote is a Mrs. E. II. F. of Minneapolis. She and her husband have so many things going for them in retirement one wonders how they find time to do them all. bad a large family, medical heavy expenses and a very modest she wrote. "It is income, true we went through a period of adjustment, but we were able to take a trip one week after Jus last day to ease the "We especially Thats part of what Colletts is all about. Just about a year ago, we helped pioneer a new furniture buying concept in this area, dedicated to helping you get what you want, when you want it, while maintaining your fi jolt he expected. Ail of that is behind them now and they are enjoying .their children and grandchil- dren more than ever and "each day presents new opportunities to c,u new and into wonder teresting things at the beauty of our favorite spots in sun, ram. snow ard nancial independance. Now, to show you just what Yankee thrift and ingenuity can accomplish, we bring you a week of special savings on two great living rooms, through Saturday the 14th. wind. Their biggest thrill is participation in a junior college program geared to older people. The only cost is for materials and "we engage in trimnas-- ! an underwater tics in Olympie-sizpool, painting, and .conversational French l Spanish, and organ lessons. And now her final para-- ( e graph: "Being home together means we keep each other as i am on crutches and he has the effects of a stroke and emphysema, but each day is beautiful and we love it all. Life has not been that couple. in vain Today only, bentwood rockers for a. 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