Mike Hanis

This is Michael Martin Hanis, my firstborn. He was born the 18th of November 1946 in the midst of a blizzard at the old Renton Hospital where KMart is now. I had a long labor but finally was taken to the delivery room and everything went wrong. All the lights went out because of the storm but they had emergency generators. Doctor Schultz came rushing in and grabbed Fred and told him " he didn't care what the laws were he was saving Eth" (his name for me) The laws at that time gave the husband the choice as to whether the child or the mother would be saved in that type of problem. Poor Fred had not been told of the problems and grabbed the Doctor back and asked what's going on. Dr. Schultz explained things were very bad and brought Fred to the door of the delivery room and had him wait outside. No one was allowed in to delivery except the doctors and nurse. Sometime later a nurse stuck her head out of the door and asked Fred what time it was. He gave her the time as 2:09 p.m. and she told him so far both mother and baby were both alive and just might make it. And as you see we both made it. Michael has been a great joy to his family, to his grandparents and his aunts and uncles. He was a jolly little boy and grew up to be a fine man