[Rhodes22-list] Life Imitates Art (Was this the Griswold family?)

[Mary Lou Troy]

Guess they have to investigate everything these days but it doesn't 
sound bizarre to me. In 1940 my grandmother and grandfather were 
travelling by the train back to Schenectady after a business meeting 
(maybe in NYC but somewhere south). At one point my grandfather 
looked at his watch said "Edna we'll be home by midnight"  and then 
sat down and died. She was a nurse and knew he was dead. There was an 
hour or two maybe a bit more left on the train ride. Not wanting to 
complicate things or have them stop the train, she didn't summon a 
conductor for assistance until they were approaching Schenectady 
station. This is a family story but knowing my grandmother I expect 
it's absolutely true.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 09:48 AM 1/15/2008, you wrote:
>*
>http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/oregon/stories/NW_011408ORN_grandmother_roadtrip_LJ.215623a7.html#
>**Family continues Oregon-bound roadtrip with dead grandma in RV * *02:32 PM
>PST on Monday, January 14, 2008* *By JENNIFER IVESON / KGW*
>
>HILLSBORO, Ore. - A bizarre investigation is underway in Hillsboro, after
>police said they were contacted by a family whose grandmother died during a
>recent road trip, yet they decided to keep driving with the body in thier RV
>until they reached Oregon.
>
>  Family drives over 1,000 miles to Oregon with dead grandma in RV.
>
>Their trip began in California and they first headed to Arkansas. It was
>meant to be a special trip for the 79-year-old woman to see loved ones
>before she died. She was suffering from renal failure but was expected to
>live long enough to complete the trip.
>
>  After Arkansas, the family began driving the RV toward Oregon but their
>grandmother died in Wyoming.
>
>  However when she died, the family decided to keep driving and transported
>the body more than 1,000 more miles, until they reached Hillsboro.
>
>  "They said a Dr. had told them, based on her condition that if she did die,
>they should continue to drive to their destination," said Lt. Michael
>Rouches with the Hillsboro Police Department. "She had a personal physician
>here in Hillsboro and the idea was that the physician would have her medical
>records and information about her condition."
>
>  Police were investigating but said it did not appear that anyone committed
>a crime. One of the family members told KGW that the grandma had told the
>family it was her wish to be in Oregon for her final days.
>
>  Even so, the Office of the Medical Examiner is helping with the
>investigation. Lt. Rouches said, "Their intentions in starting this thing
>were good."
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