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Show 284 The little north bedroom dedicated by father to be "The Family Prayer Room"...Three times you welcomed a new bride to join the family circle. Dear Aunt Mary is with us today, whom you and all of father's children have often called their best friend., .[and of her final summer while in medical school]...I see you that following summer a canvasser of dressmaking models in New Jersey pushing a baby buggy with one hand and a heavy roll of models in the other...And then graduated with honor, one of the highest in your class. ...Eight times you have come to my bed to bring me safely through the "valley of shadow." You always knew just how to hold my back so it wouldn't hurt so much, and no matter how your own back might have been aching-it wasn't too much to give all of your strength to me...the financial struggle life has always been to you. How many times you have come home, your arms full of butter, eggs, chickens, the only pay you had received for your services.14 In a newspaper feature article by Grace Grether, Ellis is described as "great but diminutive...looks like most any little grandmother, the bright-eyed lovable kind who sees the funny or wry side of everything and has lived long enough to have a great human tolerance...She cannot understand why there are not more women obstetricians in the U.S. today. 'In a land renowned for its equal opportunity for women, it's simply amazing such a few follow a profession so befitting them...' In her ninety-first year is Ellis living in the past? Indications are otherwise. Dr. Shipp still hopes that she will live to see the realization of her life's dearest dream, the establishment of a maternity hospital, modern in every respect..."Ib Her vision of that hospital-one which she hoped would provide free services to all women who needed them-was that it would sit atop Ensign Peak. It was her hope to live until that dream was realized. Though her hospital, especially the "free" aspect, may never come into being, something else of interest lias: The L.D.S. |