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Howard Dickson Pendergrass, Sr. My grandpa

Howard Dickson Pendergrass, Sr. My grandpa

6 year Pacific Fleet Boxing Champ aboard the U.S.S. Arizona, prior to Pearl Harbor.

6 year Pacific Fleet Boxing Champ aboard the U.S.S. Arizona, prior to Pearl Harbor.

Stationed aboard the U.S.S. Ludlow

Stationed aboard the U.S.S. Ludlow

The Howard Dickson Pendergrass men.. Sr. and Jr.

The Howard Dickson Pendergrass men, Sr. and Jr.

This picture, and those above, are my Grandfather, Howard Dickson Pendergrass, Sr.  Retired Navy.  The picture of him in the tent, I thought was my Uncle, his son, who served during Vietnam.  So young and they look so much like each other, could not believe it.  So amazing.

Uncle, William Clyde Chambers

Uncle, William Clyde Chambers

Uncle, Phil Wesley Tindle, Jr.

Uncle, Phil Wesley Tindle, Jr.

Uncle, Cleo McComas

Uncle, Cleo McComas

The man in the dark sailor uniform is my Uncle, William Clyde Chambers, married to my dad’s sister, Betty Jo Tindle.  (Yeah, named after her)

The next young man, with the young lady, is my dad’s brother, Phil Wesley Tindle, Jr.  With the lady he married.  Aunt Ruth.

The last young man is my Uncle Cleo, married to my Aunt “Pete”, I really gotta find out how she got that nickname, her real name is Lucille.  She is my great-aunt, aunt to my mother.

There are lots more that have served in my family, all of these young men are now gone, including my uncle, in the picture up there with my Grandfather, the two Pendergrass men. He died waiting for a heart transplant, of a massive heart attack, in 1990 at the age of 51.  Shoot, they all died of heart attacks.  :(   Didn’t even think of that.

Anyway, have had cousins in the marines, I heard, while I was in the Air Force that I even had a female cousin in the Air Force while I was in the Air Force.  I think she is from Alabama, I don’t know that I ever met her.  That I recall.  We didn’t live there very long, about one year, when I was a kid, before my brother was born.  He was born there, I must have been young because the two of us are 16 months apart.  I was a baby! :)

I guess we have a long tradition of military members in our family.  On all sides.  As do many others, everywhere.

My hat is off to all in salute.

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My cousin is coming to visit….tonight.

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I think.  :(   I am not sure at all.  A day or two before Christmas she sent me an email asking me how far I lived from Mt. Rushmore.  I replied I live 5 or 6 hours from that great monument.   If you want to meet during the summer let me know, will gladly do so! I  just need to know what day to make sure I do not have to work.

No reply.

Until last night when I got to work and checked my email.

She sent an email saying they were in Dakota, Nebraska.  :/

That is it. Nothing else, oh, forgot, she also asked where I work.   She knows I work at a hotel.

I replied letting her know the name of the company I work for and what city. Also told her to travel this way via Billings, MT as 14A is closed.  If you go South, instead of North to Billings, you just come around the other end of the Big Horn Mountains.  Suggested to her not to go that way either as the roads are narrow, hairpin turns and there are warnings for “Falling rocks” today.  (And yes, they really do fall here when they issue warnings like that in this area.)

Haven’t heard a thing since.  Don’t know where she and her hubby are at this time, don’t know if they got caught in bad weather on the way here from Michigan.  Sent a message asking where she is about three hours ago. Still nothing.  :(   I hope she isn’t mad cuz I told her I won’t drive over there (when she asked me I thought she meant during the summer) as I do not have a 4×4 vehicle, the weather changes too fast and suddenly here.  It is beautiful where I am right now, at home, but it is snowing in the mountains.  Can see it from my front window.  The Beartooth Mountains are COVERED in clouds and snow is coming down very well. (Beartooth Mountains are West)  I had to go to the store and it is snowing in the Big Horn Mountains. (Big Horn Mountains are East)

I have been cleaning all morning in anticipation of their arrival.  I have to go to sleep soon because I work tonight.

Still haven’t heard anything. I dunno what to do. Bleh.

Stuff like that makes me worry, VERY MUCH!

So, here I sit.

Waiting.

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