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Show ETHEL NIEL ON 1 , 2 4 in the church. I still can't get over his dying. He wash althy and di attack and I'd just come home from the hospital after I db en in th h pi tal r [i ur months, and he died and I thought, why him and not me? Then thr y ar aft r that then Randy comes along. He was such a pretty baby. People would say What a cut little girl." And Max would get so upset, "That's not a girl!" BEC: So you have five children all together? ETH: Two girls and three boys. Then, Roger died. He had done everything. He d done so much research. He'd been called to go over to Luzon, Switzerland, and work with Dr. Merbac. When he come back I said, "How did you like working for Dr. Merbac?" He said, "He's the orneriest man I ever met." I said, "Why?" He said, "He thought you should be in that lab twenty-four hours a day." I said, "Is he married?" He said, "No, of course not. When would he have time to get married?" Then he went to Purdue on research in Indiana, and he went to Northwestern in Chicago. He received lots of awards in research, and he taught chemistry. Then he'd done everything in the church. He died at forty and I've had a hard time accepting it. Dr. Davison called me. He said, "Remember when that child was born I told you he had lots of brains? And I said, "Yes." He said, "It don't surprise me he died; look at all he's done in his life," everything in the church; everything in education. He got his doctorate when he was only twenty-four. It would take most of us 100 years to do all Roger did in that forty years. BEC: That's tough. It's hard to see the sense in that. ETH: I know. It's really hard. We named our Roger after my dad. My dad died, like I told you, young, at forty-six. The day Roger was buried, they were buried on the same day, on the first of December. Now isn't that a coincidence. Roger died the day after 32 |
