Author Archives: Donna Gateley

Life After Divorce I graduated High School Spring of 1971. I lived at home while I took a year off school and worked as receptionist in my Dad’s Volkswagen dealership to, as my Dad said, “gain some real world experience”.  Mom and Dad were divorced in July, 1972, after 22 years of marriage. Us 5Continue reading “Blog Post # 39: My Mom: Miriam Elizabeth Hall Gateley, Part 8 – Life After Marriage”

The Cliffhanger Ending Last blog post I left you with a cliffhanger. “After working two years and saving for college Mother decided we needed a bigger house because Erica and Parker were coming to live with us. Mother asked me for my college savings to make a down payment on a bigger house, so IContinue reading “Blog Post # 38: My Mom: Miriam Elizabeth Hall Gateley, Part 7 – Married Life”

The Rest of Uncle Parker’s Story Back in 2002 my sister Deborah made a book all about our Uncle Parker.  Here are excerpts from it. When Parker was in high school he taught himself morse code and made a short wave radio. He loved using that radio. One day some men showed up at theContinue reading “Blog Post # 36: My Mom: Miriam Elizabeth Hall Gateley, Part 5 – Parker and Erica”

Mom and My Uncle Parker Mom was only 14, almost 15 years old when her brother Parker died fighting in the war in Germany.  Parker was not quite 22, only about a month and 3 weeks before his 22nd birthday.  As a reminder from where Parker’s story began in my previous blog https://mylifebydag.blog/2020/12/18/blog-post-34-my-mom-miriam-elizabeth-hall-gateley-part-3/, here isContinue reading “Blog Post # 35: My Mom: Miriam Elizabeth Hall Gateley, Part 4 – Parker and Mom”