My journey ends here...
1927
Della Monroe suffered from cardiac and respiratory issues, and her health began to get weaker.
Gladys settled at her mother's home, in Hawthorn (
).
Della's respiratory failure deteriorated her consciousness, and she could alternate crazy moments and total euphoria.
Her condition kept worsen until Thursday, August 4 when she was hospitalized at the Norwalk State Hospital
(
) where an acute myocarditis was diagnosed.
She died during a dementia crisis on Tuesday, August 23. Her death certificate pointed out she suffered from
manic depressive psychosis (
).
Gladys' father, Otis Monroe, had died in 1909 from a dementia secondary to syphilis.
So Gladys thought about a kind of family curse in mental illness. Those thoughts deeply depressed her.
Gladys found a job and worked both at the Columbia and RKO (
), two movie studios.
Little Norma Jeane still lived at the Bolender's (
,
).
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