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One morning about 2:O'clock mom started having pains. She was pregnant but nothing was scheduled to happen for three months yet. But it was happening. I dressed and went after Helen Shaw. Shaws lived around a curve and rode up the road a piece. To put it in a more understandable phrase would be about two blocks away.
Helen came in, sized things up and went home and got Loren up. He got Jim Sutton up and about 3 or 3:30 A.M. they started out in the old Chev truck to get a doctor.
They finally got to Okobojo and Bertha called Dr. Morrissey at Pierre. He started out on what turned out to be the farthest he ever traveled on one doctor call. Eighty some miles round trip. They got to the Bend about 11 O'clock. When I saw Doc the tension left me and I sat down and bawled. There were several woman there doing everything and anything they could but the guy we all wanted to see was Dr. Morrissey.
He took the baby and then came out and drank coffee with me and talked. The
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