This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Influenza of 1918, the flu pandemic that killed 50 million or more people worldwide. Not by coincidence, this year is also the 100th anniversary of the death of Evangeline Charity Moran Mooney, who died from complications of the flu on December 15, 1918, two days before her 34th birthday, at her home in Lakewood, Ohio.Angie (as she was known to friends and family) left behind her husband, William (Capt. Bill) Mooney, and their four children: Bill (who was 3 days shy of his 8th birthday), Eileen (who had just turned 5), Dorothy (3 years and 2 months old), and Tom (age 5 months).
This is some of her story ....
