[californiadisasters] Re: SF Chronicle: '06 quake through eyes of woman ahead of her time

Vic:
Thanks for posting that link. What an interesting item.

I am from Boston and an elderly lady, my grandmother's cousin came to our house each Christmas for dinner during the 50's and 60's. Cousin Mary Grady Johnston was on her honeymoon in San Francisco when the quake hit and she never ever forgot her fear. A California honeymoon was quite an adventure for a young Irish born woman in 1906. You had to really try to get her to talk about it as it was upsetting 60 years later. She could get emotional talking about the poor injured horses.

thanks again - could you post links to the followup stories??

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, Vic Pollard <sactovic@...> wrote:
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> '06 quake through eyes of woman ahead of her time
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> Jane Troutman was 18 when she inherited boxes of her beloved Aunt Leonie's belongings in 1944. She thought little of them, assuming they contained academic work from the various universities her aunt had attended, and stashed them in the family attic.
> Decades later, Troutman, now 85 and living in Beverly Hills, opened the boxes and found the bounty of an extraordinary life ...
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> Among the typewritten pages bequeathed to her niece was a description of the disaster as it eerily unfolded around her. She would lose almost everything, including her home and office ...
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> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/17/MN791IV5LN.DTL
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