She was always there to help my mother financially and psychologically. I spent a lot of time with her. Once was when I spent a week at her residence at the school of nursing listening to marching records and practicing marching in her apartment They had a very nice swimming pool there too, but I was not a good swimmer so I just looked at it and did not use it. Our closeness started early as you can see in this picture.	She took me on many special trips. One was on the PA Turnpike to Ohio after it was first opened. My mother made sure I thanked her and it started when I was very young. Here is an example that my mother saved. I think I was in the first grade.	When she retired, she bought a small cottage in Hilton Head, SC. Polly and I took our children Louise and Steve on a very nice vacation there when we lived in Richmond, VA. She would come to visit us at Christmas time almost every year after we moved to Cherry Hill, NJ since she lived in Rossmoor, NJ.

Below is a page from her HS yearbook after she transferred from Harrisburg at age 16 - Notice her grades - She was interested in dance prior to her polio.
Perhaps the family moved to Philadelphia before they moved to Yeadon. I think they spelled her middle name wrong. I always knew it as Isabel.
The address of 5529 Chancellor St would not be where a 16 year old would live alone.

Below is Aunt Sarah with three student nurses and an instructor at Vahalla Hospital in Grasslands, NY where she was the Director of the School of Nursing.

Below she is at a picnic with us.
Daughter Louise / Mother / Aunt Sarah / Me

Below she is at her Rossmore home after she retired. Pause your cursor on her picture.

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