• In 1935, Ruth, who would have been my great aunt, passed away at age 13 when she was swimming with her friends in a river and drowned.

• Her brother, Bud, was there and felt responsible for the accident because he was her big brother and was unable to save her.

• Susan and Kenneth, my great grandparents, had another child the year after Ruth's death. They may have felt it would help them feel better so Margaret, my grandmother, was born in 1936.