What happened to Dorothy and how old was she?
Norma Gutke Ellis: She was four years old, and she got whooping cough and pneumonia at the same time. Evidently that seemed to be a combination that they got. And of course, then, they didn’t have anything to fight it with at all, you know, before penicillin, before anything. I think they pretty well knew that she was going to die, and it was just before Christmas that she did die. I remember mother saying that they buried her Christmas doll with her.
From an interview with Norma Gutke Ellis at her home in Salt Lake City, Utah on 9/25/2005. Interviewed by Dennis Gutke, Norma's nephew, and Dennis's daughter, Deniane Gutke Kartchner.
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