Category Archives: Missing Mom

Growing Up Mom told me stories of when she was a girl and a young woman.  I wish I would have asked her for more. The following are a few I found on her computer after she died. When Mom was a girl living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she had a life-long close friend, Emma Sue. Continue reading “Blog Post # 37: My Mom: Miriam Elizabeth Hall Gateley; Part 6 – Young Girl to Young Adult”

My Uncle Parker and Cousin Helen My Uncle Parker (Mom’s brother) died in WW II, long before I was born. Yet Mom talked of him so often I realize how much of an impact he still made on both of our lives. In researching Parker’s story, I was also reminded of another reality that IContinue reading “Blog Post # 34: My Mom: Miriam Elizabeth Hall Gateley, 3 – Parker and Helen”

Mom’s 1st thru 8th Grades Welcome to Part 2 of my Mom’s life.  As Part 1 was from her birth thru 1st grade (last week’s blog post, https://mylifebydag.blog/2020/12/04/blog-post-32-my-mom-miriam-elizabeth-hall-gateley-part-1/ ), Part 2 will continue her story from 2nd to 8th grade. (Note to family members: Please let me know if you remember something differently or somethingContinue reading “Blog Post # 33: My Mom: Miriam Elizabeth Hall Gateley, 2 – 1st thru 8th Grades”