Mrs. Evans.

Yes; just about at the kindergarten stage. Let's see---yes, she lived downstairs, and she rented out the upstairs.

Mr. Jenner.

When you visited there, were the two boys, John and Robert, living at the home?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes; they all lived together.

Mr. Jenner.

And Lee, too?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

The nature of Mr. Ekdahl's work was such that he had to travel, you say?

Mrs. Evans.

Oh, yes; he had to do a lot of traveling. I think he was a geologist; that's what my husband said he was. He was with some big company that he was top man with, and he was a good deal older than Margie, and a very fine, handsome, big man, but he had a blood clot, and that's how they got to be married as quick as they did, because of that. You see, he was at the Roosevelt Hotel, and he had nobody, and he had this blood clot and everything, and at that time he was taking Margie out, and he wasn't too well a man because of this blood clot and all, but he wanted to marry Margie, and so she married him, and they went from Dallas to, I think, San Antonio, and then I think they went to New York, and sometime after that, of course, Margie came down here, and she took an apartment with me.

Mr. Jenner.

Before we get into that, Mrs. Evans, if you don't mind, let's go back a bit and see if I have this clear in my mind. You say you visited them once in Texas, is that right?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Other than that visit, you had no contact with her, that is, visually, in person, while she was in Texas?

Mrs. Evans.

No; I didn't. Now, after she was married to Ekdahl and went to Covington, she had her other two boys with her. This was in the summertime, of course. She had them in the boarding school over 'there, even after she married Ekdahl, this was. She kept Lee with her all the time she was married to Ekdahl, of course, so that they would all three be together on these business trips he had to take, and they would stay in the best hotels, of course, and they had the best of everything, but that didn't seem to work out too well, having Lee with them all the time like that.

Mr. Jenner.

This was when she was married to Mr. Ekdahl, that she had the boys over at Covington?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes. Her two older sons were in boarding school, and in the summer they would all be together over at this place in Covington.

Mr. Jenner.

Was this in 1946?

Mrs. Evans.

Well, I don't know just what year that would have been, but I would say it was around there. I don't remember the exact years for a lot of this stuff, but I can just tell you the way I remember it happening.

Mr. Jenner.

That's all right. Just go on the way you have been. The pieces will all fit together eventually, and that's what the Commission wants before it brings this investigation to its conclusion.

Mrs. Evans.

I have had so many people pass through my life, it would take something to remember all of those details.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you see the boys during that period?

Mrs. Evans.

Oh, yes; she would visit me for about 3 or 4 days, I remember one time, and Lee was about 7 years old then. He was a little fellow.

Mr. Jenner.

What was your impression of Lee as of that time, Mrs. Evans?

Mrs. Evans.

Well, I would say Lee was a spoiled little boy, because naturally his mother kept him, and I think Margie would have had a better life if she had put him in boarding school with the other two boys, because then she would have lived with Ekdahl. I understand they were separated and divorced before he died, but you know how a mother can throw her entire life on a child and spoil that child and let the child ruin her life for her, and Margie clung to Lee regardless, but in that respect she was a wonderful mother. You couldn't find a better woman. Of course, when she married Ekdahl, she didn't want him to support her children. She tried to support them herself.

Mr. Jenner.

That was her own decision?

Mrs. Evans.

Oh, yes; it was her decision. She wanted Ekdahl to take