Bills Story Pt 01

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Author's Note

This is an intergenerational story with all kinds of loving wives, prostitution breeding. I do my best to let my characters tell the story. Be kind.

On September third, 1920, William James Benedict Jr. was born to William James Benedict Sr. and Hazel Faye Fitzgerald in Chehalis, in Lewis County, south of Olympia. Hazel had met Bill when she was sixteen and was a candy striper at the hospital. Bill had been wounded in France in the First World War and returned for recovery and convalescence in the hospital.

Apparently, Hazel was struck by her handsome warrior patient and was very dutiful in caring for him. She had told her sisters and mom that she loved Bill with all her heart. Sometime during December of 1919, she became pregnant with Bill Junior. She was seventeen.

Bill's attraction to Hazel, besides her ponytail, was due to how she filled out her candy striper uniform. She was five foot one inches tall and weighed one hundred and forty pounds. Young love!

When it was apparent that Hazel was pregnant, her services were no longer required at the hospital and was expelled from high school in Napavine, which was a small town near Chehalis. Bill and Hazel ultimately were married in 1921, when a shot gun appeared from Hazel's older brother Ambrose and introduced Bill to life. Hazel was contented raising Bill and he was a total mama's boy. She would tell her grandsons that he nursed until he was four.

Bill Senior sometime in 1925 moved out and nobody saw him for some six months. Hazel and Bill Junior were living on handouts from her family and Bill's too God bless them. One day Hazel went down to the bank, Dexter Horton's bank and met with the manager to see if the manager could help her. He told her that Bill Senior was carrying on with a gal out in Hoquiam and he was working as a diesel mechanic.

The banker told her to go to this lawyer and tell him that the banker had sent her. The lawyer and Hazel reached a mutual arrangement and he filed for divorce between Hazel and Bill Senior.

The filing immediately seized Bill Senior's bank account and Hazel emptied it and put the money in her flower jar. There was almost $800 and she was flabbergasted and she made Bill Junior and her a chicken pie with carrots and onions with a crust on top. She knew how to make a wood fired oven sing. She celebrated and had three helpings and Bill Junior two. She went to the Lawyer's office in the morning and thanked him profusely and brought him a sandwich too.

Hazel was pleased that he was attracted to her and thought that when the divorce was final, they could make a go of it. She was twenty three. The Lawyer was not married but had many female friends through helping them with divorces and some such. She talked to her sisters Josephine, Edith and Zelda and confided to them how she'd been able to get the lawyer to go after Bill and file for divorce and was hopeful the lawyer would marry her.

The girls had some dandelion wine and were giggling and pleased for Hazel and little Bill. Josephine Fitzgerald and Hazel were closest in age. Josephine never married but like Hazel she was so attractive and worked in a salon.

All was fine until Bill Senior came back and came into the house with a girl with him and she was as big as a house pregnant and she was almost six feet tall and Bill was five foot six and before Bill could do anything Hazel tackled the huge girl and was banging her head on the floor. Bill yanked Hazel off of her, let's call her Hoquiam Hanna (Years later Hazel's grandson Teddy began to get calls from Golden, Colorado from a woman saying she was the granddaughter of William Benedict) and she looked like she was maybe fifteen and Bill said, "Keep your damn hands off her!"

Hazel flummoxed because the girl was so much prettier than her even when she was pregnant wearing a blue bell and yellow cotton dress. The dried cherry pie in the oven assaulted her nose and little Bill was in the kitchen, "Daddy?"

Hazel started bawling and sat down on the floor and Hanna cried too and little Bill ran to his momma and started bawling. Bill helped Hanna up and left with her.

Four months later and the divorce ready to be finalized Bill Senior came home. He had been severely beaten and pled with Hazel to take him back. She was not sure what to do, her heart wanted the lawyer. She told Bill that she had to think about things and that he should go see his parents.

The next morning Bill's mother Ekaterina and her own mother Mary came to visit her and little Bill. As always when Hazel was perturbed, she baked. There was a chess pie in the oven, that was mostly buttermilk and honey and cinnamon oh and some nutmeg too and then she had a casserole which was from Ekaterina that consisted of Sauerkraut, sausages from venison and some pork and caraway and salt and pepper and marjoram and the smells were glorious.

Mary had some fresh potatoes from her garden and Ekaterina had some watermelon wine, which her husband Vaclav (Benedict) had made. Vaclav was very, very upset with his son Bill Senior and screamed at him in Czech.

Both the mothers complimented Hazel on how well the kitchen smelled when

Ekaterina hugged Hazel and pulled her close to her and rubbed her back and then patted her bottom several times then let her go and said in a heavily accented remark, "Hazel you're a gorgeous, voluptuous woman and any man would want you."

Hazel blushed furiously and immediately knew that Ekaterina was aware of her "friendships" with the banker and lawyer and even if she was guessing Hazel had to tread lightly. Little Bill appeared and both grandmothers cooed over him and he was so happy and was dancing.

"Hazel," both said, "he needs his Daddy."

No more was said. Hazel was desolate and her heart was torn, she loved Bill with all her heart but he had done her badly. She was deeply in love with the lawyer and

would have to face up to that.

Bill was pleased his daddy was home. Every night at dinner he stood next to his daddy and answered his questions in Czech. Hazel did not like that at all, but Bill Senior was indifferent to her in all ways.

When Bill was in the first grade, the lawyer got Hazel a job in the bakery next to his office. She would get up at three in the morning and make a plate of fresh bread for her husband and son and leave for work and in fairly short order she excelled and was running the bakery. The lawyer and Hazel resumed their friendship.

Bill also excelled in school scholastically and he joined scouts. When he was eight his friend Lesley and he built a glider out of a hollowed out log and used the design for the wings from Boy's Life the scouting magazine and they'd put an old bicycle in the cockpit. Their plans were to hoist the glider up to the top of the roof of Lesley's dad's barn and then peddle it down and off the roof and up, up and away.

Bill and Lesley flipped a coin to see who would get to fly the glider and Lesley won, Bill pled with him to flip again Lesley said no. Saturday morning, they used a block and tackle to get the glider in place and Bill ran across the lush field of alfalfa to where they expected the glider to land. At this point in telling the story to his sons Bill would start to laugh so hard that tears would fall down his face, but in the day Bill faced Lesley hand waved a red handkerchief and Lesley pedaled furiously as the glider lumbered down the roof.

As it left the roof the wings immediately collapsed into a perfect V and plummeted some forty feet to the ground. It was later determined that the log weighed over four hundred pounds and the plans said the wings would support eighty pounds which was what Lesley weighed.

Bill raced across the field of alfalfa which smelled like a cross between hay and peppercorns. Lesley was barely conscious and Bill raced to the farmhouse and

Lesley's parents who got their truck and sent Bill home.

Leslie lost both testicles and his spleen. Bill was never welcome in their home again as their friendship was gone.

When Bill was in the fourth grade he came home from school and saw this tall woman with two little girls and his daddy was there as was his momma. Daddy told him that the two girls were his sisters and that Daddy and little Bill were moving to Hoquiam because his momma was sleeping with a lawyer and was pregnant. He looked at his momma and she looked down and he ran to his room.

Hazel said, "You haven't fucked me in five years and he got me a job and I take care of my obligations and I will beat you in court again."

It was September of 1929. Hanna's dad and brothers came and she went back to Hoquiam with them. Bill's daddy quit his job and he and Hazel moved to Seattle with little Bill.

Bill asked his momma about being pregnant and she shushed him and there was never any talk for years about his stepsisters until after World War II and momma said that she had married and moved to Golden, Colorado.

School was easy for Bill and he played football and was the state of Washington diving champion when he was a junior and senior in high school. He was big and very athletic, six foot two and two hundred and twenty pounds, jet black hair. He graduated high school in June of 1938 from Broadway high school. He had good grades except for Latin, which required him to take a year of post high school classes in Latin.

In the fall of 1939, he enrolled in the University of Washington and played football for Coach Jimmy Phelan. He was a fullback in the single wing formation, which essentially meant he was a third guard to assist blocking. He

carried the ball ten times in nine games and was injured in the ninth game with a torn quadriceps. It healed by the spring of 1940 and he was on the water polo team and did well.

He was in a fraternity house Alpha Delta phi and he met this beautiful Jewish girl and felt deeply in love. She loved him too. He asked her to marry him, and it was necessary for him to convert to Judaism and thus he needed to be circumcised and they were engaged in the fall of 1942.

Bill was drafted that fall and immediately sent to boot camp in San Antonio, TX at Lackland Army Air Corp field. They wrote daily and then Bill got a letter that she had fallen in love with another man and it was over.

Bill finished boot camp and was transferred to the University of Tulsa for officer candidate's school and was housed in a fraternity house. One Saturday morning Bill had duty answering the one phone in the fraternity house and the phone rang and this woman with a very southern drawl said, "I need to talk to Bob Jones."

Bill said, "Oh I saw Bob leave here thirty minutes ago," and he paused and said, "but darling how about me, won't I do? "

There was a silent moment and she said, "I'm Elaine and I have red hair. I think you might."

It was a whirlwind courtship and Bill proposed the next day and Elaine was head over heels in love already and accepted and they were married April 2, 1943.

They moved to Waco, Texas for single engine flight school. From there he was transferred to Benedictview, Texas for multiple engine training and their first son William Benedict III was born January 27, 1944. Shortly thereafter they were transferred to Mountain Home Army Air Corp base in Boise, Idaho.

It was certain that Bill was going overseas and Elaine left their infant with Bill and Hazel Benedict in Seattle who doted on their first grandson. Elaine made sure nobody was in Bill's bed and essentially forgot about her son. Bill was taught how to fly the B-24 Liberator far and away the most produced bomber in World War II. He left for Bari, Italy in November of 1944 to join the Army Air Corp's 15th Airforce.

Elaine came to Seattle and lived with Bill and Hazel Benedict. They now had a teenage daughter and an infant to care for.

Part 2 coming soon