The 74\u002Dyear\u002Dold Saskatoon author has lived a life worth writing about. It just took her awhile to realize it.
Eldridge has two older brothers, three younger sisters and a younger brother. Her mother was a war bride and her father was in the Canadian Merchant Navy during the Second World War.Her dad was a well-driller and plumber, but not a business man. At one point, they almost lost their house.“When I think back now, if we weren’t so poor, it would have been a wonderful life. But it probably was good for me.
In November 1972, Marten Hartwell, a German-Canadian Arctic bush pilot, crashed his plane in the Northwest Territories. He was flying a pregnant Inuk woman and a 14-year-old Inuk boy with appendicitis from Cambridge Bay to the hospital in Yellowknife. “I had to get him undressed so we could take him for X-rays. So I reached up to close the curtain around him they took a picture, and it was in Time magazine,” she says, flexing the arm captured in the photo.
That’s where she met Currie, who also worked as an employment relations officer in 1992. Eldridge was her mentor; Currie loved the way she treated people. “The old cliché ‘A stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet’ — that’s Fran’s attitude about life. She loves to meet new people; her time is their time,” Turner said, describing how Eldridge recently took care of an elderly couple who didn’t have close family nearby.
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