However, the unforgettable "Crash of 1919" left them in a financial debacle and they barely survived with their Jahncke Avenue home as products of the "Great Depression".
Nellie Fettis acted as a surrogate mother to Miriam and Nellie Garic and repeated this same role as grandmother to Dr. Lawrence Palmer O'Meallie and Garic Kenneth Barranger, Covington attorney, both her grandnephews.
Following an eye infection, Nellie died with a pulmonary embolism at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in New Orleans in 1959. "Legends of Covington Cemetery No. 1" researched and written by Paula Petecek Johnson.
However, the unforgettable "Crash of 1919" left them in a financial debacle and they barely survived with their Jahncke Avenue home as products of the "Great Depression".
Nellie Fettis acted as a surrogate mother to Miriam and Nellie Garic and repeated this same role as grandmother to Dr. Lawrence Palmer O'Meallie and Garic Kenneth Barranger, Covington attorney, both her grandnephews.
Following an eye infection, Nellie died with a pulmonary embolism at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in New Orleans in 1959. "Legends of Covington Cemetery No. 1" researched and written by Paula Petecek Johnson.
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