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(sn-dc-l)Tie* ie-Vf.seiy.rsutsyal2dVCir-□l-ietup!C-ed111-ngto•n-loim-getli-lieferCandy Mossier Speaks Prior to Murder TrialContinued from Page 1 Slifi had boon horn lo a Georgia farm family, fought a five-year battle . against crippling polio, became a high school dropout, and failed in marriage as a child bride.of the Morman Church of Buchanan.She was stricken with polio at the age of nine, lay in a comatose condition for si* months, and did not walk for five yeai's-ller brothers took turns carry-But, in New York City alterjtoR her lo school on their backs.the breakup of her marrigc, she had found that her perfect teeth made her a natural as a model for toothpaste. ads. She had worked as a fashion designer.‘•1 was doing so well in New Orleans that I had time for art and culture, she said. “I volunteered lo help raise money for the New Orleans Grand Opera Company.” She said the opera people gave her a list of business men to call on. Jacques Mossier was on the list. He had ,*in office in New Orleans that year.: I went to his.office and gof in- to see him,” she said. . He listened politely but lold me he had no interest1 in opera; He had. only gone to two opera performances in his life and each time he fell asleep.‘I didn’t give up/-1 told him he had’a duly lo help‘ cultural things,;even if he didn’t care lor them himself. I asked him to think of . .his children and the kind of world (hey would grow up in.” . •Candy smiled as she recalled that Mossier reached for his checkbook,‘‘He wrote a check for 525,” she said. It wasn’t as much as I had hoped for because he v/as down on my list for .*5350. Rut I thanked him and iook the check.” And their, romance was underway.Candy was the sixth child in a family of 12 bora to Mr. and Mrs. L. S.. Weatherby of Buchanan, Ga. “He was a cattleman and rancher,” . she said, describing her father. He was not a prosperous one, however, and most of her rearing fell upon her adored grandfather, the lalo Bishop Cary Brennan“One day my grandfather came into my room with a pair of ballet slippers he had just bought for me,’’ she said. He had gut them two sizes loo large because he figured my feet would grow that much before I could wear them. He put them on a shelf where I could see them from my bed.- ’Candy,’ he said, ‘You’ll dance again.' ”She did and dropped..out of school in the 11th grade to marry. ; « .Candy talked little of her years of glory in Houston as Mossier's* wife, when she was mistress of a 28-room mansion, with’ an allowance of- $5*700 a month to run ihe establisliment.“We were very, very happy,” she said, but he was ill in 19K2, and he changed a lot. She burst into tears, sought for words, and-found none. The interview was over.She may tell the rest of it from the witness chair.■sftoftovolammagrowoipie.Taisuegoiipaneve.Yogfrorslurnevlt;.in Ito sOnth;for canceDutchprovitpital,ing topaynuin'comG5.
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Independent Star News
Pasadena, California, US
Sun, Jan 30, 1966
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