Posted by John Chambers on July 14, 2001 at 13:59:46:
In Reply to: Searching for my father & my heritage posted by Rev. Father Michael G. Hritz on November 27, 2000 at 20:09:11:
> Mike, you may or may not remember me. I lived up on top of the hill from you. My mother passed away this spring. Wish you would have cehcked with her. She would have been able to help you. My older sister Jo Ann may know something. I'll get in touch with her and see if she has any info
al Hospital on 02/15/1955, to Margaret Kittka. My father was Howard Wendell (or maybe Wendell Howard) Gray. Because of major complications, my leg was broken during birth (breach) & I spent my first weeks strapped to a hospital bed in traction.
> I am told that pictures were taken of my pitifukl entry into this world, but my mother could not afford copies.
> Shortly after my birth, my father left us (Mum, brother, sister), I was told due to my crippled state. we were raised with great help from my grandparents in Yatesboro, til my Mum remarried in 1969, & we moved to Texas.
> I have been searching for any record of my father, or his brother Darrell (Darrel) (Daryl). My father was a truck driver from Elmira, my Mum was a coal miner's daughter, worked at Pina's Restaurant in Rural Valley forever. Is there anyone in Kittanning that would have access to old records, or that could point me toward them? I was told that my hospital records were lost in a flood long ago, but I have come to disbelieve most of what I have been told about family.
> Our heritage is the path upon which we walk; without knowing our heritage, we canot reach our destiny.
> Rev. Father Michael G. Kittka/Gray/Hritz
> Pastor, Church of the Light
> Bastrop, Texas