This is a picture of my mother, Beth Dillingham and my father, Harry Dillingham, with their friend, civil rights activist Medgar Evers. The photo was taken in 1955. Evers was assassinated 8 years later. Mr. Evers is the second from the right, sitting next to my Dad who sits next to my beautiful Mom. My […]
On Thanksgiving morning, just before sunrise, my beloved grandmother shed her earthly skin. I’m at total loss for words, just sitting in heartache and sobbing. Nothing can fully prepare us for the day. The hour. The moment when death comes for us. It’s an indescribable pain and completely powerless feeling to watch someone dear to […]
My grandparents circa 1948, laying in the grass at Montgomery Bell State Park. They were newlyweds, and their faces say it all. My grandfather’s best friend married my aunt Hazel (grandmas sister), and that’s how they met. My uncle Ed brought my grandfather down to meet my grandma and they took the girls on a […]
During the early 1950s, my grandfather was Clark Gable’s and Victor Mature’s translator for the filming of “Betrayed” in Sittard, a quaint town in southern Holland where my maternal family has roots since the early 1900s. At that time my grandfather, Bep, (the grandkids called him Opa) was one of the very few in Sittard […]
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