Shared by Joseph and Ruby’s daughter, 2026.
On Halloween, when the children were small, their father filled boxes with delightful gifts of fruit and other delicacies. Then he put the children in costumes (“I was a pumpkin”) and drove them around to the homes of prominent people in Planada and Merced.
One of the boys carried a gift box and Jay held his little sister’s hand. They rang the doorbell, and when someone answered they had all been told to hand over the box, yell “We treat, no tricks!” and then turn and run away down the street to where their father was hiding out of sight in his Studebaker.
