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Note: always served as a sweet, gentle presence to welcome everyone to come and stay with them in Buckley whenever she could.
It was her care for everyone and everything that led to her death in 1972. She had fed a wild cat out by her garden during the summer, and one day it attacked her and bit her on the knee. Immediately this became infected and swelled her leg with blood poisoning, which spread to her heart. She survived several months in a weakened state, and passed away on October 26, 1972. Such a loss to all of her family, children and grandchildren, and to a young girl brought there by her future husband David, her grandson. She immediately accepted and loved me, taking me into the family, and for that alone I will always be grateful, but she did so much, much more.
Her family came from Cardens Bluff, Tennessee to Iroquois County, Illinois when she was young, and she was married to Chester Henry Ditman on Sept. 2, 1914 in Kankakee, Illinois. They had three children; James, Dec. 1915; Hazel, June 5, 1916; and Jerry, abt. 1930.
Note: BIOGRAPHY: Pauline provided the family with this family tree, and
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