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One time when we were living in Valpo we were
sitting in the living room one evening when Mother said, "What's
that noise?" We listened and could hear a thumping in the area
of the Bay Window in the dining-room. Mother said, "Someone is
stealing our fruit out of the basement." It sounded like someone
was setting jars on the window-sill downstairs. Dad ran out onto the
front porch and yelled back to Mother: "Mother, get me the gun!"
Mother, all excited yelled back, "What
gun? We don't have a gun."
Dad was furious - his ploy hadn't worked.
The final discovery was that a cow had wandered over from an adjoining
field and was rubbing its horns on the wood under the bay-window.
When we lived in Cadillac, Mother became pregnant. My parents were delighted
and so was I. Unfortunately, the child, a little boy, was still-born.
We were all so sad at this turn of events. I can't help but thing that
this was eventually the cause of Mother's death, because she died years
later of cancer of the womb.
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They lived in Galt when she died. She was ill
for a long, long time. Eventually she went to the Dunlop Building in
Toronto for radiation treatment. They operated on her about Easter-time
and said that she was completely cured. By Christmas she was dead. I
can Grandma House standing at the top of the stairs when they came to
take her to the hosptial in the ambulance. Grandma was weeping and saying
"Why does God have to take all of my children. I'm ready to go
and he doesn't take me. All of her children except Gertie died before
she did. It doesn't seem fair.
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