Anne Fossum Lindholm

Scan courtesy of Anita Smith

Born: June 18, 1904 in Norway

Died: March 13, 1989

Married:

Children: Anita Smith,

The following recollection was shared in August, 2018 by her daughter, Anita Smith:

"As noted in her card she was there in 1938. I don’t recollect the duration. I thought she said 6 month., but it could have been a year.

She was in remission from 1938-1947 when she went into surgery to collapse her lung. Mother chose that route rather than going back to the sanatorium since she didn’t want to leave me and my father for so long. 

She contracted the bug from a girlfriend who sat next to her (in the little school house in Norway) who had a habit of whispering in my mother’s face a lot. This dear friend of hers died at age 14. No signs of T.B. showed in my mother until 6 mos. after she married, so her immune system must have kept it in check.

Mother was born in Norway on June 18th 1904, and died March 13th, 1989.

She was a poet and, aside from her poetry, she wrote about her immigration to America, adventures which eventually made it into Norwegian newspapers. 

I am grateful for the Trudeau Sanatorium for bringing my mother’s health into remission so that I could come into this world. Also she witnessed my marriage, the birth of her grandson, and later (after her death) two happy, strong, great grandsons who are now 10 and 12 years old.

This photo was taken just before she got on the boat with all her legal papers to go to Ellis Island, and eventually settle in Brooklyn, New York. A proud Norwegian immigrant.

As I mentioned to you Amy, my mother had an additional challenge in the 1960s when a gall bladder surgery revealed that a calcified bag had formed outside of her collapsed lung and was leaning on her gall bladder. The bag was a result of years' of slow fluid dripping from the [sac] that had been so used to many years of pneumothorax treatments.

She was registered in a Who’s Who in some medical book. I helped nurse the hole in her chest with the draining tube that helped her rid her body of the liquid and to stop the dripping. She healed up and lived on till 1989. She died 30 days after my father died. They were so dedicated to each other.

Also, thought I’d mention that my father was a NASA scientist who worked on the rocket ship Altimeter for the first landing on the Moon! Mother and Father met at an engineer’s party in N.Y.C., and fell in love."