COLUSA, CALIF. — Lucille Strohlein closed her eyes, recalling the story: She sat near the hospital bed, whispering to her husband. They were private words -- words of love, faith, farewell. She talked ...

Betty Taylor is happier washing windshields than dishes. For the past 10 years Mrs. Taylor and her husband George have run Canaan Sales and Service, the Mobilgas station at the junction of Routes 22 ...

LYDIA PINKHAM IS HER NAME (279 pp.)—Jean Burton—Farrar, Straus ($2.75). When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat ...

Shannon Catalano will never forget the day her grandmother asked for a bike ride. The Plano resident, 41, said her late grandmother, Margie Wood, suffered from dementia and spent the last part of her ...

This photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows Obama in 1979 during his high school graduation in Hawaii with his grandmother Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham. WEST PALM ...