Posted by Melinda (Hollobaugh)Moose on January 02, 2001 at 14:18:23:
In Reply to: Searching for my father & my heritage posted by Rev. Father Michael G. Hritz on November 27, 2000 at 20:09:11:
My name is Melinda, I was born and raised in Kittanning, Pa. Armstrong Co.
I am sorry I do not recognize the names however, I have been doing
lots of research trying to find my heritage also. I was born
in Armstrong Memorial in 1957. I know my parents, but it is the grand parents
that are a mystery to me and unfortunately everyone else
also. I will watch for these names and if I see or hear
anything, or get opportunity to look up information that may
be of value to you, I will most certainly pass it on.
Have a Happy New Year,
God Bless
Melinda Hollobaugh Moose
I was born at Armstrong County Memorial 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