Syracuse, New York
The Post-Standard newspaper
Monday, April 25, 1960
Page 7, Columns 1 and 2
Flown to Warm Springs in ‘57
Polio Stricken Girl, 14, Dies in DeWitt Home
One of two sisters, both severely stricken with infantile paralysis six years ago, died yesterday at her home in DeWitt.
She was Miss Cheryl A. Munson, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Munson of 100 Addison Dr.
Cheryl and her younger sister Patricia, fell victims to the disease only three days apart in November 1953.
Early in 1957 they were flown to Warm Springs, Ga. by an Air Force plane to undergo extensive examinations in an --- of their individual cases seeking means of improving their conditions.
The mercy flight was arranged after local physicians declared condition of the children to be an emergency situation. The medical men certified the conditions of Cheryl and Patricia not only prohibited lengthy travel by auto or train, but also by commercial airlines, due to lung pressure changes involved in the several necessary take-offs and landings.
A flight nurse and three other pilots staffed the non-stop C-15 transport Air Force flight from Syracuse.
The girls were pupils in Moses DeWitt School when they entered City Hospital the latter part of 1953. Both, with the aid of the school, continued their studies at home, although confined to wheel chairs. Cheryl had attained the eighth grade at the time of her death.
A month after being admitted to City Hospital, the girls went to the Auburn Convalescent Home, a part of Auburn Memorial Hospital, where they stayed nine months, before returning home.
Throughout their long illness, the girls received extensive assistance from the Onondaga County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which recently has turned its attention to other crippling diseases, as well as continuing its research to develop even better anti-polio vaccines the first of which came too late to benefit Cheryl or Patricia.
Besides her parents and sister, Cheryl leaves several aunts and uncles.
Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the DeWitt Community Church, the Revs. Alexander Carmichael and Gordon Anderson officiating. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Logott Funeral Home, 111 W. Castle St.
The Post-Standard newspaper
Monday, April 25, 1960
Page 7, Columns 1 and 2
Flown to Warm Springs in ‘57
Polio Stricken Girl, 14, Dies in DeWitt Home
One of two sisters, both severely stricken with infantile paralysis six years ago, died yesterday at her home in DeWitt.
She was Miss Cheryl A. Munson, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Munson of 100 Addison Dr.
Cheryl and her younger sister Patricia, fell victims to the disease only three days apart in November 1953.
Early in 1957 they were flown to Warm Springs, Ga. by an Air Force plane to undergo extensive examinations in an --- of their individual cases seeking means of improving their conditions.
The mercy flight was arranged after local physicians declared condition of the children to be an emergency situation. The medical men certified the conditions of Cheryl and Patricia not only prohibited lengthy travel by auto or train, but also by commercial airlines, due to lung pressure changes involved in the several necessary take-offs and landings.
A flight nurse and three other pilots staffed the non-stop C-15 transport Air Force flight from Syracuse.
The girls were pupils in Moses DeWitt School when they entered City Hospital the latter part of 1953. Both, with the aid of the school, continued their studies at home, although confined to wheel chairs. Cheryl had attained the eighth grade at the time of her death.
A month after being admitted to City Hospital, the girls went to the Auburn Convalescent Home, a part of Auburn Memorial Hospital, where they stayed nine months, before returning home.
Throughout their long illness, the girls received extensive assistance from the Onondaga County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which recently has turned its attention to other crippling diseases, as well as continuing its research to develop even better anti-polio vaccines the first of which came too late to benefit Cheryl or Patricia.
Besides her parents and sister, Cheryl leaves several aunts and uncles.
Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the DeWitt Community Church, the Revs. Alexander Carmichael and Gordon Anderson officiating. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Logott Funeral Home, 111 W. Castle St.
Syracuse, New York
The Post-Standard newspaper
Monday, April 25, 1960
Page 7, Columns 1 and 2
Flown to Warm Springs in ‘57
Polio Stricken Girl, 14, Dies in DeWitt Home
One of two sisters, both severely stricken with infantile paralysis six years ago, died yesterday at her home in DeWitt.
She was Miss Cheryl A. Munson, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Munson of 100 Addison Dr.
Cheryl and her younger sister Patricia, fell victims to the disease only three days apart in November 1953.
Early in 1957 they were flown to Warm Springs, Ga. by an Air Force plane to undergo extensive examinations in an --- of their individual cases seeking means of improving their conditions.
The mercy flight was arranged after local physicians declared condition of the children to be an emergency situation. The medical men certified the conditions of Cheryl and Patricia not only prohibited lengthy travel by auto or train, but also by commercial airlines, due to lung pressure changes involved in the several necessary take-offs and landings.
A flight nurse and three other pilots staffed the non-stop C-15 transport Air Force flight from Syracuse.
The girls were pupils in Moses DeWitt School when they entered City Hospital the latter part of 1953. Both, with the aid of the school, continued their studies at home, although confined to wheel chairs. Cheryl had attained the eighth grade at the time of her death.
A month after being admitted to City Hospital, the girls went to the Auburn Convalescent Home, a part of Auburn Memorial Hospital, where they stayed nine months, before returning home.
Throughout their long illness, the girls received extensive assistance from the Onondaga County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which recently has turned its attention to other crippling diseases, as well as continuing its research to develop even better anti-polio vaccines the first of which came too late to benefit Cheryl or Patricia.
Besides her parents and sister, Cheryl leaves several aunts and uncles.
Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the DeWitt Community Church, the Revs. Alexander Carmichael and Gordon Anderson officiating. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Logott Funeral Home, 111 W. Castle St.
The Post-Standard newspaper
Monday, April 25, 1960
Page 7, Columns 1 and 2
Flown to Warm Springs in ‘57
Polio Stricken Girl, 14, Dies in DeWitt Home
One of two sisters, both severely stricken with infantile paralysis six years ago, died yesterday at her home in DeWitt.
She was Miss Cheryl A. Munson, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Munson of 100 Addison Dr.
Cheryl and her younger sister Patricia, fell victims to the disease only three days apart in November 1953.
Early in 1957 they were flown to Warm Springs, Ga. by an Air Force plane to undergo extensive examinations in an --- of their individual cases seeking means of improving their conditions.
The mercy flight was arranged after local physicians declared condition of the children to be an emergency situation. The medical men certified the conditions of Cheryl and Patricia not only prohibited lengthy travel by auto or train, but also by commercial airlines, due to lung pressure changes involved in the several necessary take-offs and landings.
A flight nurse and three other pilots staffed the non-stop C-15 transport Air Force flight from Syracuse.
The girls were pupils in Moses DeWitt School when they entered City Hospital the latter part of 1953. Both, with the aid of the school, continued their studies at home, although confined to wheel chairs. Cheryl had attained the eighth grade at the time of her death.
A month after being admitted to City Hospital, the girls went to the Auburn Convalescent Home, a part of Auburn Memorial Hospital, where they stayed nine months, before returning home.
Throughout their long illness, the girls received extensive assistance from the Onondaga County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which recently has turned its attention to other crippling diseases, as well as continuing its research to develop even better anti-polio vaccines the first of which came too late to benefit Cheryl or Patricia.
Besides her parents and sister, Cheryl leaves several aunts and uncles.
Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the DeWitt Community Church, the Revs. Alexander Carmichael and Gordon Anderson officiating. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Logott Funeral Home, 111 W. Castle St.
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