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Show 134 young man to die of it in Delta, and he left his widow, Dora, and two small children, Joe and Laura. A month later Mama's half-sister, Eliza Olson, contracted flu,, double-pneumonia, and died after suffering a long time. Aunt Eliza was Grandpa's daughter by his second wife, Caroline, and she was more like Mama than some of her full sisters. They loved each other and had the same ridiculous sense of humor, an ability to see something funny about any situation. Their mothers had not enjoyed as much rapport living in the polygamy situation. In the days before miracle drugs severe and long illnesses were common in all families; they seemed moreso in ours. Harold's illness was not the first one. Grant had survived an even more dangerous near-death not connected with the flu. He was about seven. In the morning he would feel all right, but his fever would come up in the afternoon. "We didn't know what was wrong with him, " Mama wrote later. "We called in Dr. Clark, who was puzzled. He asked to have Dr. Steiner and Dr. Gledhill for consultation. They disagreed on a diagnosis. Dr. Clark finally decided that it was acute nephritis. Grant was now a desperately sick boy. His kidneys stopped functioning entirely. His other elimination stopped also, and he vomited everything that was put in his mouth. He quickly bloated beyond recognition and became toxic, went into coma. "Necha Jackman was married that day, and I asked her to take Grant's name to the temple to be prayed for. The way the prayer was |
