Earl recovered from Appendix Operation but because Doctor had claimed to Cure him with Ice packs when he had his first attack, his Insurance Company didn't pay anything on the Operation so Earl dropped his insurance, something I bitterly regretted for the Next several years.
Two years after the tragic Accident that Claimed my niece, Earl and I were wakened one early Morning by a disturbance among the sheep and Earl took his gun from its place above the door and went out. I stood watching from the Doorway but soon lost sight as he rounded the corner of the big tool shed. I heard a shot and soon the little white Dog came to the wash house and set looking toward the tool shed. Then came a call "Oh! Wife" and I ran toward the sound. In getting over the fence on the way back to the house his gun had caught on the fence and fired. He was terribly wounded a Call to the Doctor in Douglass, an ambulance ride to the hospital in Winfield. A Call to Emery McNeil (Young Minister) and he came and spent the day with us. Gave direct transfusion to Earl. But he was in such bad shape and Bleeding couldn't be stopped. My Sister and Charley came and he set with Earl while Brother Mack went home for a rest. He returned after Charley and Anna went home thinking Earl would recover. But that night with Brother McNeil beside me, I watched my Dear Husband die. The next Morning McNeil took me home to my four dear Children.
Friends had come to care for the Children and farm animals. Little Chickens three weeks old I hadn't seen as I was kept busy in the house. A few days before Donald had put together his first sentence, after watching "Daddy bury Chickie".