Biography by Kenneth & Dorleen KRAUSE –
In later years, Ken can remember Alma being very ill for a long period of time and Ken can remember his parents on their knees praying that she would get better. In time she did get better and lived a healthy life. One day the 3 girls - Alma, Ida and Elsie went to Medicine Hat - dressed in their very best, and all of them had their pictures taken by a photographer.
Alma married Edward Walker in October of 1938. They rented a farm next to Uncle Alfred's. Their son, Morley, was born in December 1940.
Dec. 1940: Ken writes: Alma was at our place, we went to bed in the evening, and I was sleeping upstairs. I woke up hearing this baby crying in the early morning. I lay there trying to figure out who would visit us this early in the morning. Later, I got up and went down stairs, and there in a wicker clothesbasket standing on the kitchen floor was this baby. Mom said, "You are an uncle now" - it didn't seem right I was only 9 years old - too young to be an uncle! But an uncle I was!
Unfortunately Alma got very sick in April, she was at home with us, as well as baby Morley. I was outside when Mom called me to saddle the horse and ride to the field where Ed was working his field with four horses. He unhitched them, turned three of them loose and rode the fourth home with me. When we got home, Uncle Emil was there with his new Dodge car. It was about noon when Uncle Emil and Ed brought Alma out of the house and put her in the car and they left for the hospital in Medicine Hat. (Dad was not at home.) Sadly, she passed away a few days later on April 15, 1941, of pneumonia and heart failure. She was only 26 years old! Interred April 20, 1941, by Reverend H. W. Riegel.
Ed, unable to care for a very young child, just months old, gave him over to his grandparents. They adopted him as their own about a year later.
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In later years, Ken can remember Alma being very ill for a long period of time and Ken can remember his parents on their knees praying that she would get better. In time she did get better and lived a healthy life. One day the 3 girls - Alma, Ida and Elsie went to Medicine Hat - dressed in their very best, and all of them had their pictures taken by a photographer.
Alma married Edward Walker in October of 1938. They rented a farm next to Uncle Alfred's. Their son, Morley, was born in December 1940.
Dec. 1940: Ken writes: Alma was at our place, we went to bed in the evening, and I was sleeping upstairs. I woke up hearing this baby crying in the early morning. I lay there trying to figure out who would visit us this early in the morning. Later, I got up and went down stairs, and there in a wicker clothesbasket standing on the kitchen floor was this baby. Mom said, "You are an uncle now" - it didn't seem right I was only 9 years old - too young to be an uncle! But an uncle I was!
Unfortunately Alma got very sick in April, she was at home with us, as well as baby Morley. I was outside when Mom called me to saddle the horse and ride to the field where Ed was working his field with four horses. He unhitched them, turned three of them loose and rode the fourth home with me. When we got home, Uncle Emil was there with his new Dodge car. It was about noon when Uncle Emil and Ed brought Alma out of the house and put her in the car and they left for the hospital in Medicine Hat. (Dad was not at home.) Sadly, she passed away a few days later on April 15, 1941, of pneumonia and heart failure. She was only 26 years old! Interred April 20, 1941, by Reverend H. W. Riegel.
Ed, unable to care for a very young child, just months old, gave him over to his grandparents. They adopted him as their own about a year later.
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Biography by Kenneth & Dorleen KRAUSE –
In later years, Ken can remember Alma being very ill for a long period of time and Ken can remember his parents on their knees praying that she would get better. In time she did get better and lived a healthy life. One day the 3 girls - Alma, Ida and Elsie went to Medicine Hat - dressed in their very best, and all of them had their pictures taken by a photographer.
Alma married Edward Walker in October of 1938. They rented a farm next to Uncle Alfred's. Their son, Morley, was born in December 1940.
Dec. 1940: Ken writes: Alma was at our place, we went to bed in the evening, and I was sleeping upstairs. I woke up hearing this baby crying in the early morning. I lay there trying to figure out who would visit us this early in the morning. Later, I got up and went down stairs, and there in a wicker clothesbasket standing on the kitchen floor was this baby. Mom said, "You are an uncle now" - it didn't seem right I was only 9 years old - too young to be an uncle! But an uncle I was!
Unfortunately Alma got very sick in April, she was at home with us, as well as baby Morley. I was outside when Mom called me to saddle the horse and ride to the field where Ed was working his field with four horses. He unhitched them, turned three of them loose and rode the fourth home with me. When we got home, Uncle Emil was there with his new Dodge car. It was about noon when Uncle Emil and Ed brought Alma out of the house and put her in the car and they left for the hospital in Medicine Hat. (Dad was not at home.) Sadly, she passed away a few days later on April 15, 1941, of pneumonia and heart failure. She was only 26 years old! Interred April 20, 1941, by Reverend H. W. Riegel.
Ed, unable to care for a very young child, just months old, gave him over to his grandparents. They adopted him as their own about a year later.
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In later years, Ken can remember Alma being very ill for a long period of time and Ken can remember his parents on their knees praying that she would get better. In time she did get better and lived a healthy life. One day the 3 girls - Alma, Ida and Elsie went to Medicine Hat - dressed in their very best, and all of them had their pictures taken by a photographer.
Alma married Edward Walker in October of 1938. They rented a farm next to Uncle Alfred's. Their son, Morley, was born in December 1940.
Dec. 1940: Ken writes: Alma was at our place, we went to bed in the evening, and I was sleeping upstairs. I woke up hearing this baby crying in the early morning. I lay there trying to figure out who would visit us this early in the morning. Later, I got up and went down stairs, and there in a wicker clothesbasket standing on the kitchen floor was this baby. Mom said, "You are an uncle now" - it didn't seem right I was only 9 years old - too young to be an uncle! But an uncle I was!
Unfortunately Alma got very sick in April, she was at home with us, as well as baby Morley. I was outside when Mom called me to saddle the horse and ride to the field where Ed was working his field with four horses. He unhitched them, turned three of them loose and rode the fourth home with me. When we got home, Uncle Emil was there with his new Dodge car. It was about noon when Uncle Emil and Ed brought Alma out of the house and put her in the car and they left for the hospital in Medicine Hat. (Dad was not at home.) Sadly, she passed away a few days later on April 15, 1941, of pneumonia and heart failure. She was only 26 years old! Interred April 20, 1941, by Reverend H. W. Riegel.
Ed, unable to care for a very young child, just months old, gave him over to his grandparents. They adopted him as their own about a year later.
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