Wilson John Woodrow

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John, nicknamed Jack, never married but lived with his widowed mother all her life. After her death, he continued to live in the family home which was a large two-story home in Grant Park, owned by him and his two brothers, Gaylord and Wayne.

Gaylord and Dorothy lived downstairs and Jack and his mother lived in the apartment upstairs. It was fixed into an apartment after Gaylord and Dorothy married so they could have the downstairs part of the house.

Jack entered St. Mary's hospital with a condition thought to be heart failure. It turned out to be a Peptic ulcer that had ulcerated and perferated the wall of his stomach. The doctor who treated him was a foreign doctor from Pakistan and misdiagnosed his condition. This was the second time this doctor had done this to one of the Wilson brothers. The first misdiagnosis was Wayne's condition. He told him he was suffering a liver condition when it was indeed heart failure. This mistake was caught by his nephew, Dr. John Mortensen on a visit from the state of Washington. Wayne was immediately taken to the Veteran's Hospital where he underwent heart surgery and a pacemaker implanted in his chest. Unfortunately, being a small town where most doctors do not want to practice, it is a haven for foreigners who would have a tough time getting into practices in larger cities. Most of the townspeople are left to the mercy of these doctors.

Because of the tragic misdiagnosis, Jack succombed to the infection caused by the perferation to the stomach wall. He was under the impression when he entered the hospital, he would be returning home shortly and begged his niece, Sonja Abate, to take him home. It was just a matter of days, when he passed away.

Jack is buried in the Wilson plot at the Momence Cemetery, Momence, Illinois. Before the (WWII) war, Jack was always the family clown but after returning from the war, he had changed. No longer the family clown, he became a very serious young man.

He worked all his life in a factory in the middle of downtown, Grant Park. He was a PFC US Army, WW II.


Social Security number is 329-07-7311 issued in IL.