Story told by Gertrude's son, Rock

 I'm going to give a little story about Gertrude who was the fourth child of James William and Mary Jane Kofoed. She died really young at age 37 of a brain tumor. I thought it would be good to learn more about her.

This was a story told by her son, "Rock".

Another story Rock tells about his mother and father. “My dad was head meat cutter at United Grocery – 9th South and 9th East – and that was the most exotic meat market in town. All the customers were really rich people from Federal Heights and they wouldn’t come down and shop. They would phone their orders in and they expected you as the butcher to give them the prime meat, so they would cater to dad. Consequently that would put him in a position to buy their used Packards. And so he’s got a really hot deal going this Sunday when he’s going to get another Packard. So the family’s out for a Sunday drive and we just ended up in Federal Heights to talk to this person about another car and so mother says, ‘Eddy, we’re not going to wait here very long. If you’re over 15 minutes, we won’t be here.’ And she’s never ever said that, see, so she’s watching the clock and here’s about six of us in the old Packard and dad doesn’t come out. She gets in the driver’s seat and we go home. All of we kids in the back. And a couple of hours later, dad arrived home and acted like nothing had happened.”