Volume 13 , Issue 43

Kenneth Dwight Pittman Bio

This is only an excerpt of a comment made recently, which concerns an OkieLegacy Ezine article that appeared in Vol. 13, Iss. 3, 2011-01-17, titled Kenneth Dwight Pittman Bio. Joy Maxine Graves left a comment and states, "The granddaughter that Mr. Pittman spoke of, Michelle Rene Graves, his daughter (Sharon's) daughter, is my niece."

Joy goes on to tell us, "She is actually about 3 weeks older than me. Her father (my brother) Ray J. Graves passed on when she and I were 2 years old. Sharon moved her & Michelle up from Redondo to San Leandro short after my brother passed and so our contact with her was about extinct."

"My father went and saw her from a distance when she was 15, across in a parking lot in San Leandro, I do not know that she ever knew he was there. She had contacted us, to our surprise out of the blue shortly after we moved from Santa Ana up to Salem, Oregon. She was about 13 and said she had tracked us down thru a school computer. We were so happy to have heard from her, and she expressed how much she missed and loved us, and thought about us all the time, same as we had always felt about her."

"My father took ill in 2006, and while on his death bed, my 1/2 brother told our father and I that he still was in frequent contact with Michelle at that time, and that she had actually moved up to Oregon to be nearer to us. He said she had married and had 2 daughters, was working and doing real good."

"A short while later, I decided to make a trip down to San Leandro to meet Mr. Pittman. Though I was unexpected, he was very nice and invited mother and I in for a visit. He told me of the years we'd missed of her life, but unfortunately, he didn't have any pictures of Michelle to see, all boxed away he said, the pictures of she and Sharon, even his wife, all the loved ones who'd passed."

"I understood, though, still I wonder what she looked like all grown up, I hadn't seen her since we were 5, and to that point, we had been very close, until she moved up north and her mother had began to move on. Sharon was never married to my brother. Though, I had tried over the years to find them, I was never given a clue where to look other than in Redondo."

"I would sure like to reconnect with them so I could Learn about my niece and her life. Maybe even see a picture of her grown up."

"We were 18 when she was ejected out of the sunroof from the back seat of that car at 19 I was diagnosed "terminally ill" and told I would not live to see 20. Sharon never recovered from losing Michelle, which drastically reduced her life force."

"Maybe somehow through here? Here is my contact information just in case: Reverend Joy M. Graves - my email is: joy.m.graves@gmail.com - I have 2 mailing addresses in Oregon, one is: 1065 Glenview Way NW Salem, Or 970304 , and the other is 1630 N. Curtin Road Cottage Grove, OR 97424."

"If Anyone knows or is willing to share anything about my niece, I would so much appreciate it! Sorry if I've seemed to carry on. I tend to do that, especially about things that mean so very much to me. I hope I cause no upset. I've just been trying for so long to find any possible thread to her. I look forward to finding more. Bountiful blessings and well wishes everyone, you're doing good things!"   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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