Instant Message, Rebecca Schnautz to Carl W. Gray, 08 Feb 2016: Carl Wayne Gray Genealogies

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Title	Instant Message, Rebecca Schnautz to Carl W. Gray, 08 Feb 2016
Short Title	Instant Message, Rebecca Schnautz to Carl W. Gray, 08 Feb 2016
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Publisher	08 Feb 2016, 08:01 am
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Text	you're welcome I have book 1 & book 3 but for some reason my book 2 has gone missing. I am glad you brought up having seen the books & that you wanted to read them or get a copy-I will try to find out if I can get a copy of book 2 for myself. I believe my son has a copy of all 3. He lives in Kansas City. I just looked at a copy of Grandma's obituary that has her name correct but I believe it came from one of the Clay County papers. I remember Doris Payne giving it to me at church & I've kept it in my BIble. Thanks for the condolonces regarding my father...It was very difficult growing up without him, both for my siblings & for my mother too. I believe it made me stronger but I certainly wished I at least had memories to hang onto but didn't. Regardless, I've heard lots of stories & I know I had so much more than lots of other kids. My mother remarried when I was a freshman in high school & my stepfather was good to us. I loved him dearly but he passed away several years ago after a battle with dementia & then lymphoma. H was such a good man. He is buried at Green Hill Cemetary south of Noble & then back west. My mother will be buried at Freedom Cemetery next to my father. Just one more thing-my father's military service!!!!! Uncle John was the oldest Gibson child & enlisted in the Navy. My father & Uncle Jim graduated in 1951 from Noble High School. They both worked for a bit & then Uncle Jim enlisted in the Air Force. My father tried to enlist but neither the Navy nor the Air Force would take him as he had his spleen removed after a wagon accident when he was around 12. The Army had no problem drafting him & sending him to Korea. He & Mother married & he did his totour of duty safely & returned home. He worked for Cliff Jones Trucking & had just started a new job in Noble at the depot before the drowning accident. Part of what Grandpa wrote about was the irony of having 3 sons in relatively unsafe places & when back home again, one loses his life. The loss around 15 years later of the youngest son, Frank, was full of additional irony as he had been Air Force as a bomb defuser & guard in Tripoli on the base when Kadafffi took over. His unit of course came back & he served in Oregon & Florida. When his service was complete he returned home having married during his 4 years & began working in construction as OCC was being built. A boom on a crane had been painted over instead of reppaired & it came loose & hit him, fatally injuring him. Grandpa wrote of this & called it The Last GoodBye. Many of his writings were published in the Olney Daily Mail over many years. I don't know which of my cousins has the original writings. They were often typed & cataloged but he wrote on scraps of paper, backs of envelopes, grocery bags; his mind was always working & he wrote down his thoughts. Life may have thrown me some difficult circumstances but I have had some of the best family that ever lived on earth. Grandma & Grandpa lived a love story. Tragedy found them through the loss of their sons & then the twins lost through adoption but they never stopped believing God had plans for them & our family.
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