Patrolman Joseph Horald Quigley

I am a grandson. I am 60 years old. I did not know my grandfather. I did know my remarkable grandmother. The year prior to my grandfathers death, their son Val drowned. A week after my grandfathers death, their eight year old daughter June, my mother was badly burned in an accident involving neighborhood children and gasoline. She was in the hospital when my grandmother gave birth to her sixth child. She was left alone to raise five children , ages ten and younger. Due to corruption in Ogden politics, my grandmother was denied a police widows pension. There was no Social Security in those days.
Thirteen years later she married the only grandfather I ever knew. Dewey Brown.
What do I remember most about my grandmother?
Her sense of humor.
I miss you Edith, I miss you Dewey. I look forward to meeting you Joseph Horald Quigley. Thank you.

Bob
Grandson

July 24, 2020