Nelson brought a woman home that night. Then in the morning, he had to ask her to help load Hilliard’s frozen body into his truck. But she was too stiff to fit in the cab, so they had to take the woman’s car.
At noon, Emily was worse; she could only whisper in gasps. With her last audible words, she said to Charlotte, “If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now”, but it was too late. She died that same day at about two in the afternoon.
Frozen. Thawed. Not dead: Jean Hilliard’s amazing Minnesota story (mprnews.org) When you Google the small town of Lengby, there’s pretty much just one result that pops up, something that happened almost 40 years ago. The accounts online call it a miracle.