Arthur George Valley / Julienne Maran Scoltic

Marriage

1. Pandemic Influenza Storybook

   http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/storybook/stories/courage/valleyparker/, In October 1918, I lost my maternal grandparents, Arthur and Julienne Scoltic-Valley, and my paternal grandmother, Loretta Carmel Crowley, to pandemic influenza, all of whom were residents of Ogdensburg, New York, a small town on the St. Lawrence River north of the Thousand Islands. As a result, my mother, Kathleen Valley-Parker, was orphaned at age 2, and my father, Charles Parker, was also orphaned at age 2. Arthur and Julienne both died in Buffalo, New York; Arthur died on October 8 at age 37, and Julienne died three days later on October 11 at age 30. My father's mother, Loretta, died in Ogdensburg on October 29 at age 34. Arthur married Julienne on September 1, 1915, in Buffalo, NY. She had come from Buffalo to Ogdensburg to enroll in nursing school at the City Hospital, administered by the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, a religious order originally founded in Montreal, Canada. Julienne?s aunt, Sister St. Stephen, was hospital administrator. Arthur was a dry goods merchant and a member of a large, well-known family.