| as well as her right foot.Each has long black stockings on and high buttoned shoes.The photo is well tinted,showing Roy`s blue eyes and Iva`s hazel.preserved in that fancy,gilded frame,behind the oval convex glass,is not only the likeness of Iva and Roy in their childhood,but the careand loveof Mother and her skill as a seamstress. Three more children were born into the Perkins in Stockholm;Guy Charles,Jan 4th 1910:Verna Irene :Feb 10,1913,and Fred Maurice Perkins Aug 7th,1915. Meanwhile,over in New Brunswick the Broad family suffered the loss of Mothers sister Ruth in 1907 at age fifteen,a last sister,Grace,was born that year only to die the next.Then,when World War I reached across the Atlantic for recruits, three of Mothers brothers,the twins Howard and Fred,and Wilmot shipped out for Europe.A card dated February 1 1917 to Mother from Grandmother Broad gave Wilmots Royal Canadian Regiment number in France,and stated he was hoping to hear from his sister Hattie. Another card came later informing Mother that Howard had been wounded and still another that he had been wounded again. But the most disturbing,I am sure,was the card dated September in 1917 saying Fred had been missing since the 15th of August Only Howard and Wilmot returned to Canada after the war,Uncle Wilmot with one arm missing and Howard with wounds that affected his health the rest of his life.So Mother had experienced the loss of four of her siblings by the time she was in her early thirties.Though not uncommon in those years of large families ,nevertheless it must have caused her much emotional strain and sorrow. |
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