Awhile ago, Nena McKinzie of Sacramento wrote to inform me as a native of Westwood she was glad to find this website, which I share what she wrote below. It is because of circumstances like this, I do not block access to any portion of the site. When I asked if I could share what she wrote, she replied: “ How nice to hear from you Tim. Of course you can share what I wrote. Thank you so much for your research. I would not have been able to fill in the blanks for my granddaughters without your information. Be well, Nena
”I just found your website and information about Westwood which I am happy to have. I just wanted to thank you for your research. I was born in Westwood in 1934 when my dad went to work there at the Lumbermill during the depression. So at 86 I am trying to gather my life history to write it for my identical twin granddaughters who are 13. I’ve had some health scares in the last few years so it is time for me to finish my life history. At any rate I just wanted to thank you it was nice to find such accurate information. I was born in the little hospital there in Westwood and I always thought it must be a huge place from the photo that my mother put in my baby book. I stopped in Westwood perhaps 30 years ago when I was working in Humboldt and met a few people. They told me the hospital was very small. Thanks for your well written articles and information.”
Then another reader wrote : My name is Craig Olson. My family lived in Westwood, California in 1953-54. My father was the music teacher at the combined Junior High
School/High School and my mother taught first grade at the Fletcher Walker Elementary School. I was six-seven years old.
I am now 73 years old and have terminal cancer. At the request of my children, I am writing a personal history of my life. I noticed some images on the internet that are attributed to your website. I am looking for a way to get permission in to use the two attached images in my personal history. I downloaded them as screenshots. One is of the hospital. The other is the chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints where we worshipped.
Do you have a picture of the hospital?
Any names of the doctors that worked there?
I have a photo of the hospital in my baby book. I am the person who also wrote a letter. I would need to find it but I could take a snapshot and send it onto you. I also have the name of one of the doctors on my birth certificate. I hope you are doing okay. I just noticed this posting now. Sorry for the delay.
Nena Hansen McKinzie