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Show she liked to dress up and walk to town to shop a bit and to see people. After a radical mastectomy within a year of her first operation, and a series of X-Ray treatments, Virginia gradually weakened through several years and by 1948, her doctor advised her to give up either her house in Mt. Pleasant or her apartment She had spent time in each of them, in turn, and keeping them both in good condition was beyond her strength; also, the driving back and forth, although Pearl often drove her. She chose to keep her home and welcomed the chance to spend more time with her family in Mt. Pleasant. By the first of March 1949 Virginia was forced to spend three weeks in the hospital in Salt Lake and her doctor then released her to stay with Aleen in her home there. Pearl stayed in Salt Lake also, and together the two girls nursed the only mother they remembered through her last illness. On Monday 25 April 1949, Virginia died in Aleen's home in Salt Lake City- Her funeral was in Mt. Pleasant on Saturday April 30th, and burial was also in Mt. Pleasant. So much of living had been crowded into her 63 years, and much of loving motherless children. UNEXPECTED DECISION H. John had decided he did not want the share of the business left to him in John K's Will after Virginia passed on. Immediately following her funeral he asked the girls if they 273 |
