(I found this part to be of particular interest.)
During the Flu epidemic of 1918 Gertrude was a volunteer nurse and nursed some of the people who were sick. Many times a whole family would get sick with the flu with nobody left to wait on them.
So, after Gertrude got over it, she nursed others.
Her brother David was gassed during the war. A short time after he arrived home he tried to rescue a little boy who was about to drown in a flood near the Union Train Station. he saved the boy and fell in the water and died. David was presented the Cerngay [Carnegie] Medal posthumously.
Some of the girls were married after the boys came home from war. Gertrude and Graham Hood were married April 21, 1920. They were happily married for 65 years. he was a Studebaker dealer.
(I never knew my grandmother had nursed victims of the flu epidemic. And I especially did not know she had had the flu.)
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