This memory was recorded by Dale Grant in March 2015.
I was working out in the corrals with some cattle, I think that we, Dad or your Grandpa and David and I, when my mom (your Grandma) came and got me and said that your mother thought it was time to go to the hospital. I went to the house and your mother and I headed to the hospital. It was around 4:00PM. When we got to the hospital the nurses checked things out and admitted your mother. A about 5:00PM the nurse came and told me to go home for a while and have supper because nothing would be happening for a while, they thought it would be at least midnight before the baby would be born. I was assured that everything was okay and so home I went. I went and had some supper with mom and dad and was watching a hockey game on television. At about 6:45 I headed back to the hospital (the old Taber Hospital that has since been torn down and the Provincial Building is now in it’s place at the corner of 5oth Street and 50th Ave.) I arrived at the hospital at 7:00PM and Deanna was born at 7:03PM. The doctor was just about too late, he had been downstairs talking with a nurse and they paged him and he did not respond until the second page because he thought that there was no need. It was a nice day for December 3 and I became the father to the first daughter that I would have with your mother and the first grandchild to both of your grandparents.
And so began a life of great pleasure and joy with your oldest sister. She has been a real blessing all of her life and I am so very thankful for her. She was an easy daughter to raise and always strove to be the best that she could be and hardly ever misbehaved!!!
