Aunts & uncles

I had a red-haired aunt on my mother's side, who lived in a suburb of Sydney, Nova Scotia.  Her husband was a radio engineer who was smart with money.  He was a cousin of this woman who was a nanny for the Ford family in Detroit. (When Henry Ford II remarried and started a new family, they brought her out of retirement.) The Fords were generous with people like her, and she had quite a bit of money, but in her last years she came under the influence of some shady people.  When she died, they expected to get her money, but my uncle went to court and got most of it. (We don't know how much they got from her while she was alive.)

I had an uncle, also on my mother's side, who got polio when he was young and always needed crutches.  But he became the town clerk and even served as magistrate.  He also played piano in a jazz band and wrote some poetry.  A factory in his town burnt down and he heard through the grapevine that it was a case of insurance fraud, and that he'd better not pursue the matter if he wanted to show his face in town again.