Christy Schaller 1914-2007

Christy Schaller was born 1914 in the state of Iowa.
She loved to travel. She started traveling to California when she was a teenager with her parents. She then traveled to southern Illinois. To Canada, Arizona and then to Oregon, Nevada and Utah. As her children grew and they settled in those states. Finally she traveled to her dream place, Hawaii.

She owned several houses in her life time. Also a mountain cabin, a mobile home in Malibu, California and a mobile home in Ashland, Oregon.

She was trained as an x-ray technician as a young woman by a local dentist in the small town where she grew up. Sioux City, Iowa. She was irradiated by an x-ray machine, a new one that her doctor, Dr. Bidwell, bought her in 1963. The worker at the factory forgot to put the lead lining in the cone of the machine. This changed her life. She lost both self-esteem and earning ability. She also suffered one of many bouts of depression that she often suffered throughout her lifetime.

When I was nine, she owned a German Import Shop in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the 70's she began to sculpt candle houses shaped like the architecture in Solvang, California and Carmel, California. She did too well with her business, and needed employees. I don't believe that she could figure out the tax laws. She finally grew too weak in her old age to work the clay.

She had a high level of emotional intelligence and two years of college. I spent one summer with my grandmother who told me how my mom, when she was little, would feel so sorry for anyone and anything, be it human or animal, when she saw it suffer. My grandmother absolutely loved my mother.

Mom was a very hospitable person. She loved to visit and get to know people.

She was married four times and would always proudly declare that she had divorced them all.
They were intelligent and professional men.

About 1960 she took a female partner, Mary Jo Clements. Mary Jo was highly educated. The Associate Editor of 'Teen' Magazine. She wrote 'The Young Actors Guide to Hollywood.' She would often be a judge for Miss Teenage America. She had been raised in Texas and Oklahoma. A distant relative of Samual Clements/Mark Twain. Her father had been a Doctor and she spoke with a wonderful southern accent, which I loved to copy. She wore make-up. Mom and I didn't wear make-up. Mom wore lipstick and perfume and I was ten years old. But I thought that Mary Jo was fascinating when she would apply her make-up, which she did every morning before work in the long mirror that hung on the door in the hallway downstairs. Foundation, powder, eyebrow pencil, mascara, blush and finally lipstick (applied with brush) two shades and then gloss. She also did cartwheels, handstands and headstands on the front lawn. I could watch that endlessly. Gymnastics just were not something that a girl should do, in my mother's estimation. I would never have been allowed to do gymnastics.

Our relationship was very formal. She had never had children, much less a man. When we had a conversation is was more like an interview that she was conducting for a magazine. I didn't like her or dislike her. I thought of her as my mom's friend. I thought that their conversation was boring and never wanted to be with them when they were together. She left on the weekends to spend time with her mother and a brother, who was an architect. I wished I could share a room with my mom and I missed my dad and always fought with my brother. Mary Jo died in 1969 while I was living with my dad and I felt no loss at her death.

At age 9 I realized that mom liked to write. She was working on a book about her life in southern Illinois. And when I was thirteen and we were living in Malibu, California, I was aware that she sent her poetry to magazines and got $25. checks for them. At this time she taught me to write poetry and we had a lot of fun sending off our poems and reading reject letters to each other and saving them. I said to her once after I had grown up, "Why don't you write a book about your life?" And she said, "Everyone would get mad at me!"

She kind of drifted around, after I left home, until she seemed to find her 'niche' in Carmel, California. Everyone in town knew her-she was comfortable with the beauty and the wealth there. She had lots of friends, they were 'her' kind of people. And I wish for her that she was still walking around the streets of Carmel today.

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