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Note: My father was always known as Bruce. He hated his first name, Lyman. He grew up in Sarnia and, like his brothers, received his medical degree from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. During the summer he worked as purser on one of the great lakes steamships, which always docked in Duluth. His landlady in Kingston was a distant relative of the Hugo family in Duluth, and insisted that he meet them when he was in Duluth. That was how he met my mother.
They were married in 1929 and went to Ithaca, N.Y. where his first position was at the student health center at Cornell University. In 1931 they decided to go to India as missionaries. He was first stationed at the TB sanitariun at Wanlesswardie, a few miles south of Miraj. After 2 years there, the mission sent them to Miraj where they remained until 1952, when, because of his ill health, the family returned to the United States. He suffered from Arteriosclerosis which started with a few minor strokes and eventually robbed him of his mind.
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