Mom and Jenny and I went to Walt Disney World on April 13, 1985. I’m pretty sure, but not certain, that Nana 1 came with us and that was the trip we got a surprise overnight stay at the Polynesian Resort. I distinctly remember eating the buffet dinner at the Polynesian with Nana, and my […]
There’s no way for me to exactly determine when this photo of mom and my little sister was taken. Based on dates on greeting cards, I know we lived at Hollypoint Apartments from at least Valentine’s Day 1983 until Christmas of 1985, so I’m just arbitrarily saying this was from the fall of our first […]
A few weeks after she died, I contacted the Holly Hill Police Department, where mom worked from April of 1979 until February of 1981. A nice woman there — who actually remembered working with mom — sent me a packet with everything she could share from mom’s file. One of the things inside was a […]
On November 2, 1979, Robert P. Morrow, Jr., the Assistant State Attorney of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, sent a letter to Luther P. Jones, then chief of police at the Holly Hill Police Department. Dear Chief Jones, I would like to commend you on the selection of your new dispatcher, Kathy Gagne.1 […]
Mom was a dispatcher for the Holly Hill Police Department from April 6, 1979 until February 12, 1981. A few weeks after she died I contacted someone there and was able to obtain a copy of her official ID:
A cherished photo
I have no way to confirm the date of this, so I’m making a guess. The WEDWay PeopleMover opened on July 1, 1975, and I don’t look to be much older than two years old in this photo. That would have made mom 27 when it was taken. Mom looks shockingly like my little sister […]
Here’s a shot of me just before my second birthday. You can see mom — about seven months pregnant with my little sister! — in the passenger seat of this Toyota Corolla. I assume dad took the photo. (I owned a 1980 Corolla-Tercel that looked almost exactly like this when I was in college!)
This photo isn’t dated at all, but I can’t be much more than a month old and it’s in a photo album full of pictures from just after bringing me home from the hospital. I think, but am not sure, that we were living on Lakeside Avenue in Warwick, RI when I was born. Dad […]
Update This post was originally incorrectly dated July 5, 1973. In a photo album I found a note in mom’s handwriting next to a copy of this same photo, “David’s Christening 7-15-73”