They called her "little Patty". She was born "Patsy Louise Colson" on August 30, 1937, and took her last breath while in the arms or her mother as she carried little Patty up the stairs to the doctor's office in Lamar, Colorado. That was early on a Thursday morning – it was her 2nd birthday that same day she died on August 30, 1939. She had been suffering with the Whooping cough and suddenly got worse that morning. She was my mother Anna's sister. My mother was only 5 months old when Little Patty passed. Little Patty was always a weak little child, and at two years of age, still could not walk, or even stand on her own yet. My Aunt Julia (little Patty's big sister) who was only 6 yrs old at the time, told me that she, along with her new baby sister (my mother), and her brother Robert (Bobby) who was 5 yrs old at the time, had to stay in the car and could not attend the funeral because they also were sick with the Whooping cough and was quarantined from other people due to it being contagious. She also told me that her mother Una cried so hard the day of Patty's funeral, that her nose just bled and bled, she told me that she never seen her mother cry again until her dad Gene had to be put into a nursing home in 1998, and then again when he died. I can't imagine the pain my Grandma Una suffered from losing her little Patty. They buried Little Patty next to her Great Grandmother Maggie Strawn and Great Grandfather William J. Strawn, the grave sites are located in the Riverside Cemetery in Lamar Colorado.
They called her "little Patty". She was born "Patsy Louise Colson" on August 30, 1937, and took her last breath while in the arms or her mother as she carried little Patty up the stairs to the doctor's office in Lamar, Colorado. That was early on a Thursday morning – it was her 2nd birthday that same day she died on August 30, 1939. She had been suffering with the Whooping cough and suddenly got worse that morning. She was my mother Anna's sister. My mother was only 5 months old when Little Patty passed. Little Patty was always a weak little child, and at two years of age, still could not walk, or even stand on her own yet. My Aunt Julia (little Patty's big sister) who was only 6 yrs old at the time, told me that she, along with her new baby sister (my mother), and her brother Robert (Bobby) who was 5 yrs old at the time, had to stay in the car and could not attend the funeral because they also were sick with the Whooping cough and was quarantined from other people due to it being contagious. She also told me that her mother Una cried so hard the day of Patty's funeral, that her nose just bled and bled, she told me that she never seen her mother cry again until her dad Gene had to be put into a nursing home in 1998, and then again when he died. I can't imagine the pain my Grandma Una suffered from losing her little Patty. They buried Little Patty next to her Great Grandmother Maggie Strawn and Great Grandfather William J. Strawn, the grave sites are located in the Riverside Cemetery in Lamar Colorado.
