Dear Editor:
Re: Multiple offers for character home, The Record, April 26.
I found your report on the lovely home on Third Avenue that sold interesting.
I notice the home was built by Thomas D. Trapp. My grandmother was Marion Leslie Hoy, daughter of former alderman and mayor Henry Hoy.
When she was a young girl, she was on a sled with Tom Trapp, flying down Eighth Street, when they hit a pole.
My grandmother fractured her knee, and in those days they used sandbags to set the knee.
She had arthritis all of her life in that knee and could always tell us when it was going to rain because her knee started to bother her.
Just one of many stories my grandmother would tell us about growing up in beautiful New Westminster.
Lynne Norrish, via email
