European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Keeping at Bay younger members of family Cluster around Dan Daugherty right and Nellie h s byte Bartimus associated press an and Nellie Dang cry worked hard All their lives but they Idun t have much to show for it they Dunn t re lira they just quit Labouring when they got Loo played out logo on. Now. A devoted daughter and granddaughter arc trying desperately to keep them from dying in an institution. Dan is 5, Nellie is 10 years younger. They live in Sprague mo., in a big old while House with peeling paint that needs a lot of repair they arc two of Only 11 people who still inhabit hat ruin of n town that acc supported three stores two churches a College u Bank a Grain Eleva Tor and a Dairy. Their grocery is Sii Miles cast i hair doctor i Miles South. Social Security gives them $500 a month and medicaid and medicare help out with tie multitude of medicines and he wheelchair. They spend j200-plus Al month Tor propane was lights a Telephone and the car. They eat a lot of eggs from their neighbor chickens. And they try to keep going one Day it a Lime. When 1 Imdad Money it Ltd to not Mike any difference what 1 did to get tit Money sys dug Chrly hiking up the trousers of his Blue of Tab. But non my legs is so bid i in t do anything any More ten l then Wili Dawn to the Pond to go fishing. I guess Well just slay with it Here til we die he says rubbing i two Day Beard. If we decide to kick the Ball this is As Good n place us any to do it  Daugherty worked for the Street department in nearby Rich Hill until about 20 years ago when a tree limb he was sawing fell on him and pinned his hip to a cur. There was no pension. Nellie worked 19 years at inc Missouri slate menial facility in Nevada 35 Miles South of Sprague until her arthritis got so bad a decade Ugo that doctors there advised her she simply could t go in doing the hard physical labor of cleaning and carrying anymore. There was no pension for Nellie either. Dan and Nellie Hail 14 children by previous marriages. Now Only three of Nellie s and five of Dan s Are still living. Together the old couple also raised two of Nellie s granddaughters when their Mother died. Most kids think of cakes ind cookies ind pre a Coli when Ihry think of la Clr grandparents Aye Jennifer Church lit one of the to Girla raised in the old House whal i remember is my grandmother wearing an old worn Spring coat for Many Winters so pal and i could have Nice clothes to go to school. They never had any savings they were always Loo Busy inking care of their children or  for a few years after Pat went off to College and Jen Tatj went to nurses training the elderly couple lived Alene in the country House they bought 14 years ago to get a by from the towns that seemed to stifle them. But now they can t manage by themselves. Daft he swollen feel he crushed hip int never healed  i bad mrs. Dean Sage stores Hay in Church that has become a shed in tiny Missouri town. Page the stars and stripes wednesday