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Frank F. Corcoran
He was in the service for six months.
John Edward Shipley
In the same edition of the newspaper in which his obituary was listed, there were 18 funerals announced.
Valentino Palo and Michelina Carnavale Palo
Wanamaker Estate’s Gardener and his Daughter lost to the flu.
Frona M. Davies Stevenson
My Mother was 4 years old when her Mother passed and never discussed these deaths.
Walter Oslowski
A father nurses family before falling ill himself.
Bertha Mary Colvin, William “Bill” Francis Wilson, Miles Wilson, and Elizabeth Griffin Wilson
“My mother lost both parents to the pandemic…”
Mary Wingard Yoder
“Why is he crying?” wondered my mother, who was six-years-old at the time.
Homer Aldrich, Blanche Aldrich Hibbard
“His fellow kitchen mates decided that if they sent him to the infirmary that he might die there, so they kept him warm by the stove.”
Celia Moskowitz Reiter
Crying for Her Mother
New York, N.Y.