The 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic-Teacher is Victim

From: Oakland Tribune, 22 October 1918, Page 4, Column 2

School Teacher is Pneumonia Victim

Miss Flores L. Pattee, instructor in the Recreation Department of Oakland, has succumbed to pneumonia, following an influenza attack, according to news from Santa Cruz, her former home. Miss Pattee had been ill for several weeks.

She was instructor of the teachers' swimming classes at the Piedmont Baths, and had served in the Bella Vista, Park Boulevard, Hawthorne, and Lakeview playgrounds, organized a girls' swimming clas at a local park and also directed athletic classes for girls at the College of Holy Names. She was a sophomore in the College of Letters at the University of California, and had just started a course in reconstruction aid. The funeral took place today at Santa Cruz.