Alaina Urquhart
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They were told she had diphtheria and was quarantined.
Peg Looney died in the radium dial hospital at just 24 years old.
And according to her niece, the radium dial company insisted that Peg be buried right away and started making preparations.
But by then the family was very suspicious that the company might be trying to hide something.
So one of them, badasses that they are, they intervened and insisted the family be allowed to give Peg a Catholic burial.
And the company relented and even agreed to allow to have an autopsy performed in the presence of Looney's doctor.
But when the doctor arrived at the scheduled time, they said, oh, the autopsy's already been completed.
Peg was just the first of many radium dial painters to become ill with mysterious illnesses, and the company just kept attempting to minimize them or cover them up.
In 1925, another painter, Catherine Donoghue, also started feeling sick and experiencing incredible pain in her hip that actually caused a limp.
And in 1931, Radium Dial fired Donahue because, quote, my limping was causing much talk.
And she told a report of that in 1938.