Agnes, a Polish immigrant, lived in a small farmhouse in upstate New York with her husband and infant son Paul. In 1925 the farmhouse caught fire. Agnes grabbed her baby and tried to escape the flames, almost free, the porch roof collapsed on them both.
Protected in his mother's arms, Paul survived and as a child was told the story... that he and his mother were pulled from the fire, his mother was sent to a nearby hospital where she died.
It was 63 years later when Agnes' grandson attempted to locate his grandmother's medical records. Unsure where she had been admitted, he contacted the State Hospital. They confirmed that Agnes was admitted in 1925, but she had not died at that time, and in fact was still living and still a patient at the hospital.