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Blessing News Dr. and Mrs.. Smith attended the wedding at Francitas Sunday night, Miss Edna Heidy and Mr. Sutton, of San Antonio.--Palacios Beacon, Friday, September 12, 1919 Francitas Oliver Sutton of the 1st engineer corps and Mrs. Sutton (nee Heidy) of San Antonio are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Heidy of the Nebraska Inn.--The Houston Post, Sunday, December 28, 1919 Francitas Columns Professor Rogers, of Victoria, and Miss Iona Heidy, gave Francitas people a surprise by slipping away and being married in Bay City last Saturday morning [December 18, 1920]. They were accompanied by Mrs. Heidy, the bride's mother, Mrs. Gyon, Miss Frances Ruthven, and Miss A. L. Beatty. After the Christmas holidays Mr. Rogers will return to his school near Victoria and his wife will continue her work in the Francitas school.--Palacios Beacon, December 24, 1920
Mrs. Olive Sutton and her daughter, of Bering, Texas, are at the Nebraska Inn. Mrs. Sutton is the daughter of Mrs. Hattie E. Heidy, proprietress of the Inn. On Sunday, July 16th, an impromptu picnic party journeyed to Port Alto on Carancahua Bay. After reveling in the briny deep (?) until sunset, prodigious quantities of food were consumed and there followed an agreeable lassitude, lasting until the time for departure had arrived. The party included Mrs. Hattie E. Heidy, Mrs. Geneva Guyon, Miss Frances Ruthven of Palacios, Misses Sophie and Elsie Lubben, Miss Jewel Langston, Mr. H. B. Fislar, J. L. Dalby of Houston and Mason Hirsh, Helen Heidy and Edna Lubben.--The Palacios Beacon, July 21, 1922
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Four gold star mothers will leave Sioux City next Saturday to begin a pilgrimage to the graves of their sons on the battle fields of France. The group includes Mrs. Amanda Lindgren and Mrs. Hattie Heidy of Sioux City, Mrs. H. Larson of Hornick, Ia., and Mrs. E. Freking. Leaving here Saturday on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Pau and Pacific railway, on the first stage of their journey, the quartet of mothers will sail for France May 21 on the steamship George Washington from New York.
Between 300 and 350 gold star mothers from other
parts of the country also will be included in the trip abroad that
is sponsored by the...[end of article missing]--Sioux City
Journal, May 13, 1930 |
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Four gold star mothers will leave Sioux City tonight over the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad on the first lap of a journey which will carry them to France to visit graves of their sons who died in the world war. The gold star mothers who will leave Sioux City at 7:30 o'clock for Chicago are: Mrs. Hattie Heidy, 210 Main street; Mrs. Amanda Lindgren, rural route No. 2, Correctionville road; Mrs. A. Frelking and Mrs. F. Layson, Hornick, Ia.
Sioux City Journal, May 17, 1930 |
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Three Gold Star mothers left Sioux City at 7:20 o'clock Saturday night to visit the graves of their sons who were sacrificed on the altar of war and left to sleep in the fields of France. Mrs. Hattie Heidy, 216 Main street; Mrs. Amanda Lindgren, route 2, Correctionville road, and Mrs. Ida Frerking of Yankton, S. D. were the mothers who began the long pilgrimage. Each of the somewhat pensive middle aged women wore scarlet "buddy" poppies, made by disabled soldiers in government hospitals, and placed on the mothers' lapels in simple tribute. The three women said they would place the poppies on their sons' graves. Each mother had credentials enabling her to make the trip across the sea as a guest of the nation. Several other Gold Star mothers from surrounding towns, who also were expected to board the Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee and Pacific train here Saturday night, failed to appear Mrs. Heidy, Mrs. Lindgren and Mrs. Frerking, who said she had not met the Sioux Cityans until they gathered at the train, were scheduled to go to New York City via Chicago, and to embark Wednesday from New York on the George Washington. It was believed they would be gone about two months. None of the three women previously has experienced a trans-Atlantic journey. They will be the guests of France, whose own youth stiffened and heightened its tricolor at the shout: "Lafayette, we come." Corporal Raymond Parry, One Hundred Forty-eighth Wyoming infantry, fatally gassed October 16, 1918, was the son of Mrs. Heidy. He died 12 hours after inhaling the deadly fumes, died "with his boots on," true to the tradition of the Wyoming cow country from which he came. Corporal Parry enlisted the night war was declared by the United States [April 6, 1917]. He then was 23 years old. Private Vernie Lindgren, company G Three Hundred Seventy-fifth Iowa infantry, Eighty-second division, was the boy who left Mrs. Lindgren and did not return. He had been graduated from Emmetsburg, Ia., high school and reached his 21st year when he followed the roll of drums. Private Lindgren died in camp, February 5, 1919, as a result of having been gassed in Argonne forest, October 17, 1918.
Sioux City Journal, May 18, 1930 |
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With mingled feeling of joy, pride and sorrow, and wearing scarlet "buddy" poppies made by disabled soldiers in government hospitals, these three gold star mothers left Sioux City at 7:20 o'clock Saturday evening on the Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee and Pacific railway on the first stage of their long pilgrimage to France as guests of the federal government where they will visit the graves of their hero sons. With the undimmed sorrow that only a mother's heart can know over the loss of her offspring, yet proud of the fact that their sons made the supreme sacrifice on the fields of Flanders in the service of their country and mankind, and joyous in the knowledge that at last the pilgrimage was made possible whereby they would be able to visit the world war cemeteries in France where the bodies of their sons, the three gold star mothers were wished bon voyage by a large gathering of friends and acquaintances as they boarded the train Saturday evening on their long journey. They are expected to sail Wednesday from New York on the steamer George Washington. Arrived at the French cemeteries, after an official French reception, they will place the scarlet poppies they are carrying with them among the decorations on the graves of their sons.
Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa,
Tuesday, May 20, 1930 |
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New York.--(AP)--The third contingent of the mothers' A. E. F. sailed for France Wednesday to visit the graves of their sons and the places where they lost their lives in the world war. Representing western states--chiefly California, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Washington and Iowa--these gold star mothers will visit cemeteries in Oise-Aisne, Aisne-Marne, Suresne, Meuse-Argonne and Somme. There were 258 of them, in charge of Maj. Frank Camlock.
Sioux City Journal, May 22, 1930 |
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Paris.--(P)--Gold Star mothers of the third American group, numbering 257, traveled over the world war battlefields Sunday, and Sunday night were in their quarters in the towns of Verdun, Nancy, Chateau Thierry, St. Quentin and Soissons. Monday the mothers will go to the five cemeteries for their first visit with their dead. Those mothers whose sons lie in Suresnes, in the environs of Paris, visited the graves Sunday. Meanwhile the second group has finished its pilgrimage and is making trips through the battlefields and around Paris before sailing for home. Except for Mrs. Lisette Leidl, of Sough Dakota, who was taken to the American hospital with a touch of arthritis, the mothers continued in good health. Mrs. Leidl will rejoin the party within a few days.
Sioux City Journal, June 2, 1930 |
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Only adjectives in the superlative degree would fit a description of the trip to the battlefields of France taken by the gold star mothers through the aid of the United States government. At least that is the attitude taken by Mrs. Amanda Lindgren, who, with Mrs. Hattie Heidy, were the two beneficiaries of the trip from Sioux City. Mrs. Lindgren and Mrs. Heidy returned from the trip Saturday morning, full of praise for the manner in which in tour was conducted, but, nevertheless, glad to the "back home." Mrs. Lindgren reported that the trip was "wonderful" from the time she left Sioux City May 17 until the time she returned Saturday. She said the government could not have made more perfect arrangements for the visit to the battle fields in France. The best of everything was provided in the way of food, lodging, tours and personal health, she said. "Words simply cannot describe the trip," said Mrs. Lindgren to a representative of The Journal. "I could say so many things it would take weeks to tell them." Outlines Tour Mrs. Lindgren did give an outline of her trip, however, explaining some of the most outstanding events and scenes on the journey that took her and Mrs. Heidy to the graves of their sons whose lives were sacrificed on the altar of democracy. The two gold star mothers left here May 17 on the eventful trip. After arriving at New York and spending a day in sightseeing, arranged by the government, they boarded the steamship George Washington May 21. Fine weather greeted them on the entire trip and with the waters calm they experienced only a slight touch of seasickness. The group soon achieved the name of "Sunshine Mothers," because of the fact that the sun shone throughout their voyage to France and during their stay there. Our first act upon reaching Paris was to place a wreath on the grave of the "Unknown Soldier," said Mrs. Lindgren. "Then we started on a tour of the battle fields, making headquarters each evening at Nancy, France. Our first visit was to the graves of our sons, and fortunately we were placed in the sa,e group because both our sons were buried at the St. Mihiel cemetery." Mrs. Lindgren's son was Private Vernie Lindgren, of the Three Hundred Twenty-fifth infantry, Eighty-second division. Mrs. Heidy was visiting the grave of her son, Ray Parry, of the One Hundred Forty-eighth infantry. Both were gassed shortly before the signing of the armistice. Marble Crosses Mrs. Lindgren said that the wooden crosses that were erected at first to mark the graves of the fallen soldiers had been replaced by white marble crosses, carrying in full the name and company of the men and the date of their death. Thousands of poppies and other flowers grown on and near the graves, which are maintained in perfect condition, Mrs. Lindgren said. Following the visit to the cemetery, the gold star mothers were conducted on a tour of the battle fields that lasted a week. " An officer and an American war veteran who had fought during the entire conflict acted as guides and pointed out the the interesting places, with an account of the events that occurred at each," said Mrs. Lindgren. "It was wonderful and horrible. Trenches, barbed wire entanglements and everything was left just as they were at the end of the war, except for the changes caused by the rain and weather." After inspecting the battle fields the mothers were conducted to Paris and taken on sightseeing trips. The return trip was made on the steamship Roosevelt, sailing June 10. Stormy weather was met on the return trip, but Mrs. Lindgren reported that the mothers withstood the voyage in splendid shape. Receives a Medal The ship was docked in New York Wednesday noon, and after a sight-seeing trip Wednesday evening, the final lap of the journey to Sioux City by rail was started Thursday. Presentation by the ship's captain of a medal indicative of the gold star pilgrimage was a feature of the trip. Mrs. Lindgren could not find words of praise sufficient to bestow on the government for arranging and handling the tour. She said the tour would have cost each mother $2,000 if taken individually, but that the government paid all expenses. Meals in France were arranged for every stopping place. The best of lodging was afforded, and the group was accompanied by a doctor and nurses. Mrs. Lindgren said that the average age of the mothers was about 65 years. The oldest gold star mother on the tour, Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchins, of Oakland, Cal., was 92 years old, and was in the same group as Mrs. Lindgren. Every aid was given Mrs. Hutchins, and a wheel chair was provided for her use and for other mothers who could not walk any great distance. Despite any infirmities, Mrs. Lindgren reported that every mother was able to see as many of the sights as those physically well through accommodations afforded by the government.
Sioux City Journal, June 22, 1930 |
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