Gertrude “Trudy” Callahan has been living in San Antonio for decades – but lately, dementia has been pulling her somewhere else.
“Within the last couple years she has been asking to go ‘home’ and when I told her she was home she would say ‘well, that’s nice of you to say but I need to go home,’” her daughter, Ellen Jacobs, said.
The “home” Trudy meant wasn’t Texas. It was the house where she was born in 1932 – a family home that still stands in Oberlauringen, Germany…