As you can tell by the article, Clem was quite a character. When he and his wife, Millie, came to visit my Dad and our family in Joliet, a good time was had by all. They would stop on their way to Chicago to pick up leather for repairing shoes, and then Clem and my father would talk into the night about good old times in Freeport, one brother trying to top the other's stories.

Aunt Millie (Mildred Myers of Baileyville, IL) helped in the repair shop and had her own business fixing zippers - "all types". She had the bluest eyes I have ever seen. Uncle Clem had a sign in the shoe shop that read, "We fix anything but a broken heart." I have a doll repair shop in Plainfield, Illinois, and have a sign in tribute to him saying, "We fix broken hearts". One day while talking with a customer of mine, a woman from Forreston, I found out she knew my uncle and she and her family had been stopping in the shoe shop for years just to listen to Clem's stories and watch his antics. Small world.