Kathy, a childhood friend, sent a link to the Sentinel Leader, the newspaper for Sparta. I have spent most of today doing searches for references to Mom and Dad and Sparta Aviation.
A couple of things of note. When Tam was 9 months old, Mom and a woman called Irene Heft rented a house in Ft. Myers Florida for a few months. Why? I know Mom and Irene were friends and then had a falling out. Over what I don't know. Perhaps Tam does. I did meet her, have a vague memory of going to her house when I was young. Met her again in later years and have a somewhat dim recollection of her being a bit overbearing or gush-prone. She is mentioned another time in the paper with Mom, a social visit to another woman.
Mom had obviously come to know a columnist on this small paper, Carol Holmes Kurtz. Perhaps because Mom for a time wrote a small column called Hangar Talk. Anyway, Mike, Mom's last cat came from Mrs. Kurtz. She writes about it here : http://spartahistory.org/newspaper_splits/The%20Sentinel%20Leader/1958/The%20Sentinel%20Leader%20-%2007_1958%20-%20Page%2015%20.pdf
Another issue: http://spartahistory.org/newspaper_splits/The%20Sentinel%20Leader/1945/The%20Sentinel%20Leader%20-%2012_1945%20-%20Page%2018%20.pdf has a photo of Dad and his grandmother Mrs. Combs after he had taken her for a flight on her 84th birthday.
Found too that Dad had been a Captain in the RAF. If he mentioned that during my childhood, I missed it. Dad was many things but he wasn't one to skyte about his achievements. He loved his time in the Transport Command, said it was the happiest time of his life, but he didn't brag about it. He flew bombers to England and to Africa. Would've been a pretty thrilling time, to say the least, especially flying the North Atlantic, notorious for its storms.
I was mentioned once,when I was 2 and known as Cupcake.
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