Monday, June 21, 2010

Wilma Myrtle Wallen-Weber


Wilma Myrtle Wallen-Weber is one of Grandma's older sisters who died in her early twenties. Above is her death certificate from the Ohio Health Department. Amazing what you can find on the internet!

The story goes a little something like this...

Aileen, Wilma's older sister, took a job in Columbus, Ohio in the 1940's. Wilma decided to move up there with her and took a job in the credit department for the city of Columbus. She met a man named Richard Lee Weber and they were married in 1946. A brief 10 months later, Wilma was pregnant but delivered a still born baby boy at 8 months in Grant Hospital. The cause of death was toxrmia of pregnancy. She died at the birth of the still born baby boy.

Grandma said that Wilma was always a sickly child, who contracted Typhoid fever at a young age. She had poor kidney function which was most likely the culprit and cause of her death.

Grandma claims that Richard cheated on Wilma and got another girl pregnant at the same time that Wilma was pregnant!

Here is the home where Richard and Wilma rented out rooms located on the south-central side of Columbus on 395 Fairwood Ave. (The house on the right)

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