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- During the depression, nobody was having their houses painted. George and Virginia were so destitute that Grace and JBT took them in for several months. In gratitude, George began refinishing a Victorian walnut bedroom suite owned by JBT. He did the bed, but not its crown, and the dresser, but not its two little top drawers or mirror. He then got a painting job back in Kirksville and the rest of the refinishing was not done until 1994 when LKL inherited the furniture, stored it, and then had an antiques restorer finish it. Fortunately most of the pieces were saved and were used in the restoration.
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