This had to be around the time of Edna's death. She looks around 13 or 14. Ellen used to talk about the day that Edna passed away. All that summer she was sick with headaches and didn't look well. Estelle, Ellen's good friend, said years later that her mother noticed Edna that summer had a jaundiced look to her skin and worried that she wasn't well.
On the day she died she was in her room she shared with Ellen and suddenly spoke of hearing beautiful music, and kept asking Ellen if she could hear it too.
From all accounts, Edna was a pretty wonderful person. She was Gibby's favorite and very athletic. I always was struck by how much I thought she looked like Ruthie.
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