The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1920-02-21
Relief Workers

The record made by the Relief Corps
under direction of the Red Cross Home
Service Of Roy during the epidemic Of
Flu and Pneumonia, is one to swell
the heart with pride in our town and
community and those who, whether
allied with fraternities which teach
the divine lesson of humanity or not,
have risked their lives and spent
sleepless nights and distracting days
in ministering at the couches of suffer
fering.
Among those who have answered
the call of humanity and did heroic
service are:
Mrs. F. S. Brown, Mrs. VIM. Bra
shears, Mrs. VIM. Roy, Mrs. ], L.
Swain, Mrs. F. S. Strickland, Mrs. R.
Kilmurray, Mrs. s. E. Paxton, Mrs.
H. A. Gray, Mrs. Morris Baker. Mrs
&c. A. Nicholson, Mrs. w. H. Wilcox,
p. J. Reynolds, Mrs. VIM. Hill, Mrs.
Irwin Ogden, Mrs. Mickie Floersheim,
Mrs. John Weisdorfer, Mrs. F. A.
Bruce and others.
Misses Fannie Blevins, Genevive
Brown, Eula Hanna, Miss Bryant,
Misses Laska and Letha Gray
Mary Hern, Ernestine Grzelajoski and
others who have helped in measure
as they were able to do.
The young men who have volunteer
ed and have gone wherever they were
sent, caring for the sick and rendering
service wherever needed and who have
set a pace which can but make all
who have witnessed their heroism
realize that the big ideaI which has SO
long been to many merely dogma
has begun to crystal1ze into higher
humanity that has no room for cow,
ardice or selfishness.
Notable among them are: Homer
Holmes, James Howell, V. V. Carus
VIM. Gilstrap, Harry Chambers, Ell
mer Scott, Lloyd Scott, Jim Craig
Ellis Abernathy, Harry Redd Johr
Whiting, F. S. Strickland, Rual Wade
Tony Hanson, Earl McMinimy, Wen
dell Swain, Lester Floersheim, AL
bert Branch, j. Forrest, J. w. Busey
Ernest and Glenn Anderson, the Weis
dorfer Brothers, and M. N. Baker,
Tony Hanson, Kenneth Hall,
F. A, Bruer, L. E. Deubler, and q
number of others.
Many who could not, for divers
reasons take an active part in caring
for the sick aided in other ways.
Melville and Edgar Floersheim were
kept at home by illness in the family
but, loaned their cars to the cause
The Beck Motor Co. and Liberty Ga
rage donated cars to get help to the
people in the country and there was
never a lack of transportation for
workers.
Ladies who could not leave their
homes and families prepared food for
the sick and for the nurses and some
remained at home and TOOK no part in
the humanitarian efforts.
The epidemic seems to be past and
all the victims are on the mend so
far as reported. We trust the lesson
it has taught us at so great cost
will not be ignored or forgotten and
especially we commend the heroism
of those to whose unselfsh and un-
tiring efforts is due the fact that the
death list is not far greater May they
never need such aid out may it be
granted them as freely as they have
given themselves to the cause Of prac-
tical christianity.
Ben Pacheco, a pupil in the primary
room at the Rov schools, died Tuesday
morning at his home in the Section
house in Roy. He had been i'll severa
days and the whole family had Flu.
Ben was an apt pupil and his teach
er, Miss Bryant, is one who grieves
over his death as does his family.