Robert & I were born during World War II. We lived in Milo, Warren co., when he was born. He was a caesarean birth, at Mercy Hospital, in Des Moines. Same place I & mother had been born, although none of us were Roman Catholics, it was where special procedures like this were done in those days.
In the spring of '44 mother Margaret lost her only other child, her only son Robert D. We lived in Milo, just south of the Catholic church when he was born.
When asked mother Margaret would never reveal what the "D" in his name stood for. And she was committed to her secret and took the knowledge of it to her grave in 2008.
She always told me they would not let her see her baby boy. And she was still hospitalized when they had his grave side rites shortly later here in Indianola.
Our dad said he would never let this happen again, have a child die, & not have a family grave site set up. He went & bought 6 plots at IOOF, in the same cemetery of his mother-in-law Maud CURL Kiphart's Curl family. They were to be for himself, mother, her parents, & brother & me.
He just forgot his parents! He had to unexpectedly get 2 more plots in the row east of ours, so the Johnson's though not with our family plot, could be here at IOOF in 1951 & '55 respectively.
As a child I remember mother Margaret telling me she could hear her baby Robert crying for her.
The loss of her son was the second greatest loss of her life. First her grandma Curl, and then her baby Robert.
I don't think she ever got over the loss, it colored her life from then on.
In the spring of '44 mother Margaret lost her only other child, her only son Robert D. We lived in Milo, just south of the Catholic church when he was born.
When asked mother Margaret would never reveal what the "D" in his name stood for. And she was committed to her secret and took the knowledge of it to her grave in 2008.
She always told me they would not let her see her baby boy. And she was still hospitalized when they had his grave side rites shortly later here in Indianola.
Our dad said he would never let this happen again, have a child die, & not have a family grave site set up. He went & bought 6 plots at IOOF, in the same cemetery of his mother-in-law Maud CURL Kiphart's Curl family. They were to be for himself, mother, her parents, & brother & me.
He just forgot his parents! He had to unexpectedly get 2 more plots in the row east of ours, so the Johnson's though not with our family plot, could be here at IOOF in 1951 & '55 respectively.
As a child I remember mother Margaret telling me she could hear her baby Robert crying for her.
The loss of her son was the second greatest loss of her life. First her grandma Curl, and then her baby Robert.
I don't think she ever got over the loss, it colored her life from then on.
Robert & I were born during World War II. We lived in Milo, Warren co., when he was born. He was a caesarean birth, at Mercy Hospital, in Des Moines. Same place I & mother had been born, although none of us were Roman Catholics, it was where special procedures like this were done in those days.
In the spring of '44 mother Margaret lost her only other child, her only son Robert D. We lived in Milo, just south of the Catholic church when he was born.
When asked mother Margaret would never reveal what the "D" in his name stood for. And she was committed to her secret and took the knowledge of it to her grave in 2008.
She always told me they would not let her see her baby boy. And she was still hospitalized when they had his grave side rites shortly later here in Indianola.
Our dad said he would never let this happen again, have a child die, & not have a family grave site set up. He went & bought 6 plots at IOOF, in the same cemetery of his mother-in-law Maud CURL Kiphart's Curl family. They were to be for himself, mother, her parents, & brother & me.
He just forgot his parents! He had to unexpectedly get 2 more plots in the row east of ours, so the Johnson's though not with our family plot, could be here at IOOF in 1951 & '55 respectively.
As a child I remember mother Margaret telling me she could hear her baby Robert crying for her.
The loss of her son was the second greatest loss of her life. First her grandma Curl, and then her baby Robert.
I don't think she ever got over the loss, it colored her life from then on.
In the spring of '44 mother Margaret lost her only other child, her only son Robert D. We lived in Milo, just south of the Catholic church when he was born.
When asked mother Margaret would never reveal what the "D" in his name stood for. And she was committed to her secret and took the knowledge of it to her grave in 2008.
She always told me they would not let her see her baby boy. And she was still hospitalized when they had his grave side rites shortly later here in Indianola.
Our dad said he would never let this happen again, have a child die, & not have a family grave site set up. He went & bought 6 plots at IOOF, in the same cemetery of his mother-in-law Maud CURL Kiphart's Curl family. They were to be for himself, mother, her parents, & brother & me.
He just forgot his parents! He had to unexpectedly get 2 more plots in the row east of ours, so the Johnson's though not with our family plot, could be here at IOOF in 1951 & '55 respectively.
As a child I remember mother Margaret telling me she could hear her baby Robert crying for her.
The loss of her son was the second greatest loss of her life. First her grandma Curl, and then her baby Robert.
I don't think she ever got over the loss, it colored her life from then on.
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