Mildred was my father's baby sister. She died at the age of 6 months. My Aunt Hazel described her as a "blue baby" on a family info sheet. She probably had trouble with her heart or lungs. She is buried near her father, and grandparents. A sister recalls a story my father told about my little aunt when I was not living at home at the time. It must have been hard for him to speak of her and that was the only time he did. He recalled how someone in the family ran out of the house with her in their arms crying that she was dying. I wasn't told and didn't know when I visited the cemetery that the little stone was my baby aunt who had lived a short life so long ago. The stone is very eroded and hard to read.
Mildred was my father's baby sister. She died at the age of 6 months. My Aunt Hazel described her as a "blue baby" on a family info sheet. She probably had trouble with her heart or lungs. She is buried near her father, and grandparents. A sister recalls a story my father told about my little aunt when I was not living at home at the time. It must have been hard for him to speak of her and that was the only time he did. He recalled how someone in the family ran out of the house with her in their arms crying that she was dying. I wasn't told and didn't know when I visited the cemetery that the little stone was my baby aunt who had lived a short life so long ago. The stone is very eroded and hard to read.
