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Old-Age Assistance
(Third in a series of articles by Mrs. Elizabeth Buntin to enlighten the people on Old* Age Assistance)
Before \ve continue our discussion, let’s stop here and learn about two Virginia families who nad old-age assistance last year. In the first family I’m going to tell ^'ou abo.t there were three sisters.
In February, 1945, a minister went to his Welfare Board to ask help for three sisters in his parish. One was 68 and had been paralyzed for ben years. She had lost $500.00 in a loan society that went banrupt. Another, 73, was practically blind. She and the third sister, 80 years old, did $12 worth of fine laundry each month, and they rented a room in the house they had “heired” from
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