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Several West Michigan girls helped the Fords with their children in the 50‘s and 60‘s. On August 1, 1963, Congressman Gerald R. Ford wrote to Miss Linda Lound in Holland. Offering her a job for the last two weeks of the summer at the cottage as a maid and cook for $20 per week “plus bus fare to and from the cottage.”
Miss Lound treasures the memory of those two weeks fondly. “...most of all, it was just taking care of the children, being with them. We went to the beach every day because we were right on the waterfront.”
Steve Ford napping in the cottage in 1963.
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