I am sure you all remember Dr. Thompson. How many of you had him for
your family doctor? You certainly don't find doctors today to come calling day
or night like he would. He delivered over 4,000 babies. He delivered my son
Dennis at home, along with his nurse, Georgia Johnson, for $25.00. Later built
another home close by with office. My new little great-granddaughter cost
$3,000. What a difference today.
When the flu was so bad back in 1918, he never went to bed for three
weeks. He bought a car in 1911, but he stored it in the winter and made house
calls in his buggy or sleigh. I am told they couldn't find him, looked everywhere
and found him out in the outhouse sound asleep.
excerpt from Memoirs by Gladys Sheneman