No they didn't. I just read the article.
"Your father’s coming" to see you, my grandmother Toot said. "Next month. Two weeks after your mother gets here. They’ll both stay through New Year’s." She carefully folded the telegram and slipped it into a drawer in the kitchen. Both she and Gramps fell silent, the way I imagine people react when the doctor tells them they have a serious, but curable, illness. For a moment, the air was sucked out of the room, and we stood suspended, alone with our thoughts."
Yeah, those airport pictures cause quite a bit of problems with dates. Especially with the old terminal timeline :)
OK—guess I missed that line.