I failed to mention the birth of our youngest brother Lloyd Justin Theodore Sommerer. Dr. Hill hadn’t delivered any babied for Mom at the present location so I went up to the road with a lantern to open the gates and get Dr. Hill down to the farm and again to open the gates to let him back out when he left.
While in basic training I was taken into the company commander’s office and read a telegram from Marjorie about Lloyd’s accident with his foot. He was a very sick boy for a while, but all the younger siblings remember that so I won’t expound on that further except to say that one time when I was kind of down, Mom tried to cheer me up by telling me how blessed we were. That she had 12 children and each of them had 10 fingers and 10 toes in other words all were normal people. But of course several years later Lloyd lost some of his toes.
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