↑ Gloria Stuart: I Just Kept Hoping, 1999, page 6.My father died two weeks later, leaving Mama with two children, no savings, and no means of support. There were no antibiotics then, and nothing stopped the spread of infection. One evening not long after his appointment to the bench, as he was coming home from a Christian Science church meeting, a car backed into him and severely injured his leg. 'Daddy believed Christian Science had helped cure him of tuberculosis. For Mama, it meant a secure future for the first time in her life, a position in Santa Monica social circles, a rainbow arching the blue sky.'

I don't remember which court it was, but Boy and I understood that this was something exciting for our family. 'When I was nine, my father was nominated to be a judge. They were the parents of three children: Gloria, Frank, and Thomas. He was married to Alice Vaughn Diedrick 22 September 1909 in Los Angeles. He was born 8 October 1878 in Lickitat, Washington Territory, the son of John Thomas Stewart and Letitia Knox Miller. Scofield gave her a first-class wedding, complete with a silver flatware service, a huge brass samovar, cut-glass crystal bowls, china, even monogrammed linens, all for a nobody postal clerk!' Mama proudly told how her friends Colonel and Mrs.

In time, he proposed marriage to Alice Deidrick. Frank Stewart's family were farmers (related, Mama said, to Mary, Queen of Scots), but he went to San Francisco to study law, then came down to Los Angeles. He was a stern and handsome Scot born in The Dalles, Oregon-The Dalles is perched on the great Columbia River, and was the end of the Oregon Trail. His daughter Gloria remembered her father in this way: 'Then Frank Stewart, a law student moonlighting as a postal inspector, walked into Mama's life.

Frank Stewart was an attorney and the father of the actress Gloria Stuart.

I Just Kept Hoping by Gloria Stuart