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Mother Paula
On 6 August 1938 Paula Schneider-Bodenmann first saw the light of day. In Martisberg/VS (Switzerland) stood her cradle.
Josef, her father, and Helen, her mother, were mountain farmers and model parents. Paula grew up with eight brothers and sisters, of whom she was the fourth. She was a very cheerful girl, who really enjoyed life, though being shy and reserved. Very early she had to take responsibility.
At the age of 13 she lost her mother, who died at the birth of her ninth child due to heart failure. Together with her one-year-older sister she took over many duties of a mother.
After elementary school she attended a domestic science school for two years and later she spent a year learning how to keep house with an upper class dentist’s family in Chur (Switzerland). With considerable preliminary work experience in home nursing and in a hospital she completed nursing school in Bern (Switzerland) successfully.
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