Remarkable women – Bonnie Laiderman
Bonnie Laiderman will never forget the feeling of helplessness she had when it came to her own mother. Her mother was the surviving spouse of a veteran of wartime which qualified her for help from a pension with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Bonnie, nor her mother knew about it, “my mom was eligible, and we had the papers, and we were ready to go and the doctor called and said ‘Bonnie, your mom is terminal, take her back to St Louis.’ I did and she died 11 days later.”