Bluma Lepiku

This is me in this picture: I am a controller at the toy factory, at my work place. This photo was taken in Tallinn in 1978. I worked in the recreation center for three years. In the children's recreation center I contracted dysentery bacillus from children. I could not come to work with the children before I fully recovered and I quit the center. I went to work as a typist at the railroad office. I issued train and load tickets. I thought it was going to be my temporary job, but when I fully recovered, I did not feel like going back to the center. My work there involved night shifts and continuous nervous tension? So I stayed at my new job. There I met Ilmar Lepiku, my second husband. He is Estonian. He was a loader. We got married in 1962. When we got married, I quit my job and went to work as a controller at the Salva toy factory manufacturing dolls with Estonian folk costumes. The factory was located in the yard of our house, which was very convenient. Shortly before I was to retire I went to work at a toy shop. They paid a higher salary to the staff of shops, which was better from the point of view of my future pension. When my retirement time came, I was assigned the highest pension rate in the country, which was 120 rubles.