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Show were seriously ill. (The "flu" epidemic took a heavy toll in the state) . On the very Christmas before the seriousness of the flu was fully realized-John K's first Christmas in the new house-his brother Will and wife Mary-with their three children, William, Virginia and Robert, spent Christmas eve with John K's family in the Play Room. Everyone enjoyed being visited by Santa as part of the fun. The following 3 April 1919, Mary died of the "flu," leaving those three small children and her sorrowful husband Will. John K recalled that other April third-fourteen years earlier--when his Katie had died and left him with two tiny daughters. His heart was full of understanding and sympathy for his bereaved brother since he, himself, knew so well the problems that faced a motherless home. NOTES 1Hilda M. Lonsdorf, comp. and ed. Mt. Pleasant (Salt Lake City, Utah: Stevens and Wallis, 1939) pp. 246-247. 175 |
