What Nobody Saw: Day 4

Word Count: 24,008

Summary of Events:

Walker went over to his dad's house to watch the Toronto Blue Jays with his dad and a bunch of his dad's friends during which he asked if his dad recognised the name Warner Schissler, which his dad did, informing him Warner Schissler had owned and managed several auto dealerships, but had died two years ago. The following day Walker perused some of the papers, looking to see if he could discover a connection to the Dr. Schissler he'd discovered on Friday, whose first name he'd learned was Jonas . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

At the bottom of the box, in among many of the newspapers — which dated back into the 1960s — were two notebooks belonging to Jonas Schissler. That gave Walker a total of five Schissler children, and a connection.

Like Ricky and Zina’s notebooks, Jonas’ were marked with the school year they were used for, not just the grade that Jonas had been in when he’d used them, and based on those years and the typical age of children in the grades that Jonas was in when he used the notebooks, Walker estimated Jonas to be in his early fifties, a little younger than Dad, which fit with the picture of Dr. Schissler on the Mobility Orthopaedics website.

So it looked like Dr. Jonas Schissler was the son of Warner and Jolene Schissler. That was a good connection.

With that connection Walker wondered if he should contact Dr. Schissler about his mother’s mail, but there was also the fact that Warner Schissler was dead, so then was it possible that Jolene Schissler was too? If her oldest child, which was Ricky based on what Walker was observing, was in his late fifties then Mrs. Schissler had to be in her late seventies.

Sure Grandpa Felix and Grandma Milla were in their mid-to-late seventies, but that was about the age where the old people started dropping off, as even though Walker had all of his grandparents still alive — including his step-grandparents because of Mom’s parents having divorced and both remarried — a lot of his friends had at least lost one of their grandparents, if not all of them.

Corbin, for example, had only his grandmas left, while Jasper had no grandparents at all, and Marshall had only one set, and all of their deceased grandparents had died before the age of eighty five and after the age of seventy.

To Walker that meant that Mrs. Schissler, having to be over seventy five for sure, could very well be dead and gone, and thus unable to read her unopened mail, or she could even be in such a delicate state that seeing all the mail she’d stashed away would upset her.

It might be an idea to see if he could find out whether Mrs. Schissler was still alive by searching the internet or something, maybe she’d have a number in the phone book if she was still alive somewhere.

If he couldn’t find anything about her then he might have to contact Dr. Schissler and see if either his mother was still alive or if he and his siblings would be interested in looking at two boxes full of letters and parcels their mother had, for some reason, never opened, but, instead, decided to stash away in the attic of her house and forget about.