Kelley Okolita
My sincere condolences on your loss. From what I have read, she was a beautiful soul.
A little of my family history -
On August 10th, 1942, after enduring 3 months of near starvation where men were limited to half and quarter rations (or whatever they could get their hands on) during the US Military's fighting retreat in Bataan, Philippians, after surviving the grueling Death March where he and the other captured soldiers with him were marched 70 miles with no food or water, after being herded on to a cargo train, after surviving more than 2 months in the Hell that was the Japanese prisoner camps, further weakened by a diet of only white rice and water and manual labor, Corporal John G. Gunn, age 20, finally succumbed to cerebral malaria. Soon after the news of his capture, my mother found out that her beloved cousin "Johnny" was actually her biological brother and that she had been adopted. My mother's birth name was Harriet Gunn.
My daughter found this obituary and shared it with me. Winifred's father Fritz was also my mother's brother which makes Winifred and I first cousins. My mother was raised as an only child and my father had only one sister who never married so I have never had first cousins growing up.
If you are interested in connecting with a long lost cousin - you can find me on facebook or email me at [email protected].
Thoughts and prayers to the family.
