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- Dortha Jane Owens was born in Waterville, Kansas. She was a licensedPractical Nurse and practiced nursing from 1958 to 1978. She was thelibrarian for the World's Smallest Library from 1956 until the newCoalfield library was opened in 1995.
In the spring of 1971, Dot Byrd was called by a frantic Judy Carter.Judy's father came to the door of their mobile home (next door to Dot)carrying Judy's son, Tim, who was 2 years old, and said "Call Miss Dotand see if she'll meet me by the road and go with me to the doctor.Tim has cut his leg."
Miss Dot didn't hesitate. She said "ok" and hung up the phone and metJesse Kesterson at the road, where he stopped and got her in the carwith him and little Tim. Judy went on to work thinking Tim had beeninvolved in yet another minor accident and needed a couple ofstitches.
When she arrived home hours later, Tim had 11 stitches in his leg fromthe knee to the hip bone. He had stepped on a scythe handle, causingthe blade to fly up into the air, then ran into the blade, slicingopen his thigh. Jesse and Miss Dot took Tim to Dr. Van Hook, whosewed up the wound, all the time hearing Tim scream for Miss Dot.
Jesse told Judy, when she got home, that Dr. Van Hook said Tim wouldbe slowed down significantly by the wound and the drugs he had givenhim. Dr. Van Hook was very mistaken. Tim never slowed down for aminute.
Jesse and W.I. Jackson had been walking Judy's property line whileJudy was getting ready for work. Jesse was taking Tim home to hishouse and didn't want to scare Judy about the accident. For theremainder of his life, Jesse regretted Tim's accident.
A few months later it was Mr. Perry Byrd who went to the ER with June,Judy and Tim. Tim had opened the refrigerator door and a cookie jarperched on the top had made its way to the edge and fell on Tim,making a gash in his head that required a very few stitches.
Judy called June Kesterson and Perry Byrd to take Tim and Judy to theER. Sandra Marcum was at June's house and June was frosting her hair. Sandra came down to stay with 6-week old Andy, who had been quicklylain on a bed and was screaming at the top of his lungs. At the ER,it was June who went back with Tim while Tim had his head sewn up.When they got back home, Sandra still had the bleach on her hair.Surprisingly, Sandra's hair didn't fall out!!!
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