NURSED MOTHER
For two weeks, Mrs Glenna Perkins, a hospital nurses’ aid, helped care for an old woman who was dying of cancer in Jellico, Tennessee, reports the Associated Press.
Not until just before the woman died did Mrs Perkins, aged 43, learn that the patient was her mother, whom she had i not seen for 35 years. “When I told my mother I was her daughter she just broke down and sobbed,”
said Mrs Perkins. “She told me, well I'mj ready to die now.” A fewj hours later the mother, I Mrs Vera Bolden, was; dead. Mrs Perkins learned of her! patient’s identity when a sister telephoned on Sunday and said Mrs Bolden' —who had remarried—was their mother. “I’m glad I got to see my; mother this one lasti time,” Mrs Perkins said* “All these years I didn’t' know whether she was! dead or alive. “I was just a child, about! eight years old, when myi father died.
”1 am one of seven children, four brothers and three sisters. It seemed that after father’s death the family just scattered.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31279, 27 January 1967, Page 2
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