By: Ardis E. Parshall - July 26, 2016 .. When Louise Johnson Lake contracted polio in the summer of 1945 – she became ill while escorting the MIA girls of her St. Louis branch on a visit to Carthage, Illinois – there was little doctors could do. This returned missionary lay in the hospital for more than a year, first fighting to breathe in an iron lung, and then struggling to regain movement in her arms. Many hospitals, including Sal...
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