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Show All of her heavy labors through the years had taken their toll and she gradually interested Bill in the registration paper work and the busines records, while she continued to carry her allowable share of the work involved in them. By the year of 1940, both men wanted her to turn over the herd washings, herd bottling, etc. to Pearl who very often helped her with those tasks anyway, and could easily assume them with the help of her daughter, Billye. Virginia reluctantly relinquished her reins in such duties to Pearl, and turned more paper work to Bill. Bill had decided that both John K and Virginia should be more free to leave, to enjoy going places and doing things they had taken little time for while they were heavily involved. John K agreed with him, and when Bill offered to lease the business and provide them with more time and freedom, John K said, "Better than that - I'll sell it to you." That offer completely surprised Bill for he had little with which to buy, but his father-in-law said it could all be worked out satisfactorily. When John K consulted his attorney about it, however, he was informed that it would complicate the will he had drawn several years earlier- In view of that, he decided to go ahead and lease rather than sell the business to Bill- and they considered the matter seriously. In many ways,' the two men, Bill and John K, were much alike. Both were unassuming, industrious, practical, and 252 |