[GBA]

She died of the flu.

That's a shame. I wonder...if she had smelt of elderberries, then perhaps old age would have claimed her instead? Guess we'll never know.

The flu took a lot of people back then. The flu pandemic of 1918 left my then toddler dad a mother-less child.

[PLMerite]

“The flu pandemic of 1918 left my then toddler dad a mother-less child. “

My mother was born in 1918. It didn’t get anyone in her family, but she heard stories about it when she was older. One day you’d see a person on the street; the next day the doctor’s buggy would be in front of their house, the day after, the undertaker.

[Mears]

TB took my father in 1938.

It was a different world-—2 siblings predeceased him.

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