Mrs. Slaybecker was a lady who lived in a tiny house on Cattell Street on College Hill in Easton. The house was on the east side of Cattell, the second house north of Lafayette St. on College Hill. I believe the house, set back from the street as I remember it, had been added onto in recent years, but as I remember it, it was tiny, but perfect I suppose for only one resident.I don’t remember if she had a family, but as a Mrs. she presumably had a husband at one time. I don’t remember one. My father used to do a lot of local landscape work in those days, in the early and mid 50s in Easton, Mrs. Slaybecker had been a music teacher at one time and she had a large piano in her living room. I could not have been more than 5 when Dad used to work for her, so it would have been about 1952.
She moved to E. St. Joseph St., on South Side, but diagonally opposite from the section of South Side where we lived. Her new home was in the area of the Italian neighborhood in that part of South Easton. She gave Dad a number of Rose of Sharon trees that he transplanted in our yard. They are a flowering tree that never gets much taller than a man. I don’t know what became of her after Dad put the trees in our yard, because after that, he never did any yard work for her again, but whenever I think of those Rose of Sharon trees, I think of that kindly little piano teacher.