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Mary Neeley:
"Where have all the flowers gone? The most BEAUTIFUL flowers in the garden are always picked first. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love is a memory no one can steal. You were the GREATEST singer/songwriter of the 21st century. Others will come and go but no one will EVER have your style. Rest in peace, Dear Amy Jade Winehouse. You have touched so many."
Daniel Pinna:
"11/10 - 11/11/19 was a great new experience for me. I was in Bakersfield at a recording studio called River Theatre at 1213 North Chester Ave in Oildale (Bakersfield) CA working on a new company with new business partners. The River Theatre opened in September 1939 and then closed around 1964/1965. It became a recording studio for Buck Owens from 1968 until 1992 when a number of artists like Johnny Cash recorded. It then became an independent recording studio from 1992 until it closed in April 2008. Since that time a new friend of mine has utilized the location for him and his band.
It was my 1st time to Bakersfield and one of my longer drives. I've only driven once longer than that and that was the time my father and I drove from San Jose to Los Angeles over to Phoenix Arizona to visit my grandmother in Sun City."
Marc Mason:
Marc Mason was born October 22 1986 to Lori R. Whalen and Jeffrey D. Mason in the city of Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, United States.
In Marc's early years he attended Sorenson Elementary School. During his younger elementary years Marc participated in concert choir. He was also in special education classes for a learning disability.
Marc's home life was chaotic and he often ran away or found himself in trouble. His favorite place to run away to was his grandfather's house David Lowell Mason.
After elementary school Marc attended Canfield Middle School where he joined the football team and the after school program Young Marines.
After middle school Marc attended Coeur d' Alene High School and played high school football.
During this time in his life he was in and out of trouble with law enforcement and consequently because of it in and out of juvenile detention.
During Marc's high school years he ended up being sentenced to 18 months in juvenile prison and spent his time at JCC Nampa and North West Childers Home and then the Anchor House of the Idaho Youth Ranch.
After Marc was released he shortly had his first child. Marc had a daughter with Linda D. O'Hara from Kellogg Idaho. They named her Zoey Elizabeth O'Hara-Mason. Marc was 17 years old at the time. When he turned 18 he applied to be a police officer with the Kellogg Police Department. He was given an official job offer but later messed it up for himself. He ended up working many jobs to try to support his child, but failed and became restless and went on the move living out of this backpack and tent.
When his daughter turned a year old Marc decided to better his life for himself and child. Marc joined Job Corps. He was sent to Curlew Job Corps Center (CCCJC) Operated by the United States Forest Service. During his stay at Job Corps Marc studied Forestry. However Marc was kicked out of the program after making A Veiled Threat to the safety of staff and students in a moment of anger.
Job Corps before he was kicked out however trained Marc and fully certified him as a United States Wildland Firefighter. Marc upon his return got together with a old friend Mellisa K. Norris and married her having two more children a year apart from each other. His son Tristen Samuel Mason (Norris) and his daughter Danielle Elizabeth Mason (Norris). Marc and Mellisa eventually separated.
Marc and his family moved away from Coeur d' Alene to Rapid City South Dakota in 2007 before moving back to Coeur d' Alene Idaho in 2008.
Marc was shortly hired after coming back from South Dakota at Five Star Security in Coeur d' Alene becoming the vice president. TobyJoe McCastland was the owner of Five Star Security.
Marc then went to work for Eagle Eye Security in Post Falls Idaho.
Marc then opened up his own security company called Global Hawk Security. He opened it with a business partner Adam.
Marc after separating from his wife moved to Boise Idaho and was homeless on and off for several years working multiple jobs during that time. He also drifted to Canada and Mexico for awhile.
Marc stayed for a short time back in Coeur d' Alene and became a bail bondsman and Bounty Hunter with All American Bail Bonds.
Marc eventually started drifting again.
When Marc stopped drifting around he and his father Jeffrey David Mason started a paranormal investigation outfit together soon finding themselves on various adventures across the country and finding themselves on television on a television program broadcasting their paranormal investigations. They named there investigations company Apparitions Paranormal Investigations Group (APIG) and shortly after created API Media as a documentary and television media outlet. Marc would later on write a book about the paranormal titled Apparitions Paranormal Ghost Hunting 101. His book became a top seller and became the standard training manual for paranormal investigators across the world.
Marc eventually meant another women Tia Bolton also having a child with her a son they named Zehdikiss Daveid Mason. After this child was born Marc decided he was done with having children and had a vasectomy performed at Planned Parenthood in Boise Idaho.
During this time Marc launched an initiative to reactive the Idaho State Guard, Idaho's inactive state defense force. In order to help lunch the initiative Marc joined the State Guard Association of the United States to help network with other state agencies and with Idaho state representative Sage Dixon that wrote legislation to introduce to the floor. Unfortunately Dixon never introduced it.
Marc would move to Coos Bay Oregon in 2017 and lived with his mother Lori Owens and step father Darwin Leon Owens Jr.
Marc would then once more travel two various places before coming back to Idaho where he would then later open a hot dog vending stand customizing in gourmet hot dogs.
Marc eventually moved back to his hometown of Coeur d' Alene. Once again down on his luck and homeless. It was during this time he found a new lady whom the two of them fell in love. Her name Miki R Bails. The tow of them started dating then eventually got married April of 2025.
Marc started building out a new food trailer. Instead of focusing on hotdogs he updated his menu to include handmade smash burgers, sausages, and Nordic and Scandinavian foods. He named his food trailer Grillpolser's. Marc also started a web development services agency specializing in building websites for small businesses and start ups. He called his website company CyberMason. Marc also launched the Food Truck Association of North Idaho.
Marc also reintroduced himself to the state to reestablish the Idaho State Guard. He launched a Facebook page called Idaho State Guard Reactivation Project and also launched a petition on change.org
Jessica Christensen:
Nola was my Great Grandmother. She had a very sweet soul. We all miss her very much. In her older years when she had to move from Picayune to Gulfport to live with her son and daughter, she gifted me with her daylillies and amaryllis' from her flower garden. I still have to this day.
Robert Stetson:
Radio Row - As grade-school aged kids in Brooklyn we were allowed to cross just one street when we were playing (walking to school was the exception). However, we reasoned that riding the subway into Manhattan didn't count as crossing streets. Cortland Street had surplus stores with electronics and military stuff. (Surplus insect repellant could be used for great stink-bombs)! It was hard to keep our trip a secret when the two of us returned home carrying an old oscilloscope (not solid state in those days; just tubes).
Peggy Wells:
Grandpas hands were strong and told a story about a hard working man. He loved his family beyond speakable words. Grandpa was absolutely A devoted husband and father and grandfather. He was a hard working man, as I can remember he was a truck driver. Grandpa loved getting his head scratched and us grandkids combing his scalp. Man of patience, integrity, honesty, most forgiving man on earth, he had a lot to be proud of 7 children 14 grandchildren 1 great grandson when he passed away. This man was so compassionate. Best humor his is missed my many and hope is memory becomes a legend and always remembered.
Janet Davis:
I'm Sena's Granddaughter - I'm thrilled to have finally found her! - My Name is Janet Davis (maiden name Parker) I only met Sena once, back in 1961 when I was just a year old. My mother (Deanna Parker) and my father (Gerald Wilson Parker) travelled all the way to West Virginia from California to visit and to introduce me to the family. We stayed for the summer and then later returned to California. My Mother use to tell me that my grandma White just adored me, and she fed me fresh milk straight from the cows on their farm. I never had the opportunity to return, due to my mom and dad's divorce. However, I never forgot the stories my mother would tell of our adventures driving cross country and the fun we had while visiting family.
I also remember my uncle Eugene, He was my favorite uncle! I read that he passed away back in 2007, as did my father, Gerald. I hope that some of my family on my father's side will see this and smile knowing that I "remember" Sena and wish that I had been able to get to know her better.
James Pannozzi:
Walter B. Suesman was a prominent Rhode Islander Chess player, a Master - Walter B. Suesman attained a rating of Master of Chess after participating in several U.S. Open tournaments in the late 1930's and into the 1940's. He was often at the Providence Chess Club in the 2d floor of an old building on Aborn St. in Providence, long since demolished, and he also ran a Chess column with news, games and Chess problems in the Wednesday Providence Journal Evening Bulletin for over 40 years.
He played in club matches and was an inspiration to the younger players like myself in the early 1960's when I was in high school. Later on I would run into him during the lunch hours catching some sun near the Turk's Head building in downtown Providence in the early 1970's where he had a day job doing accounting work and I was working over at the nearby Providence Washington Insurance company as a computer programmer.
He was a friend of Al Martin, another master of chess who had also played in U.S. Open tournaments. It was Martin who payed the rent that allowed the chess club to exist. On a hot summer night in the mid 1960's we would be playing chess with the windows open for air, fans going, and music from the wild Pirate's Den bar across the street would come in. A newsletter written by a Mr. Dwyer, the Providence Chess Club bulletin, produced monthly, has descriptions of the environment, the people and tournaments if you can find a copy. Other top players at the club were Henry Sonnenschein, Herman Rose, G.M. Irwin, William Parberry, Gary L. John, and Warren Chamandy and Robert Barry.
Oziel Bernardo De La Garza Garza:
Oziel De La Garza Son of Fidel De La Garza+ Teresa GarcÃa Páez. Married Maria Victoria Garza Gonzalez - Fidel De La Garza + Teresa GarcÃa Páez
├── Oziel De La Garza (1938–2006) + Maria Victoria Garza Gonzalez (1938–2013)
│ ├── Maria Teresa De La Garza
│ ├── Oziel G. De La Garza Jr. (1961–2007) + Rosa Nelly Garza Leal (b. 1961)
│ │ └── Oziel Bernardo De La Garza (b. 1987) + Andrea Esthela Perales Martinez (b. 1988)
│ │ ├── Raul Eduardo De La Garza (b. 2005) – U.S. Army Infantry
│ │ └── Grecia Ruby De La Garza (b. 2024)
│ ├── Nora De La Garza
│ ├── Moises De La Garza
│ └── Melba De La Garza
├── Eliud De La Garza
├── Elias De La Garza
├── Fidel De La Garza
├── Edmundo De La Garza
├── Ruth De La Garza
└── Rebecca De La Garza
Kristielynn Avato:
Lost relatives - Fredrika Scherry McCauley was my great great grandmother, me and my mother were talking about her tonight and she showed me a picture of her on her 105th birthday. She told stories of how she use to watch the NY Yankees from the roof top of her apartment in the Bronx. I am Ethel graces great grand child and have recently learned that there was a family division with the graces and McCauleys. Hoping this finds someone I may not know I’m related to !
Shelley Cardiel:
I have two postcard photographs belonging to the TESSEY Family of New York including one of Edward L. TESSEY and Clara MOSER TESSEY which was taken at the P. R. Thomann Studio in Utica, NY. The photograph was taken some time between 1904 and 1918 with the couple appearing to be in their 20's at the time it was taken. They are also identified as "Dad's Parents" on the back. The second photograph is one of Edward TESSEY at age 9 months old. There is no studio or location identified on this photograph which was also taken some time between 1904 and 1918.
Based on limited research I was able to gather the following information regarding this TESSEY Family:
Edward John TESSEY was b. 22 Aug 1915 in Utica, NY to parents Edward Lewis TESSEY (1886-1937) and Clara Katharine MOSER (1887-1966). Edward was the only child born to this couple. Edward married Katherine Ann WILLIAMS (1915-1978) on 1 Jun 1940 in Clinton, NY and they had a daughter, Suzanne B. TESSEY (1951-2022). Edward died 12 Oct 1998 in Utica or Whitesboro, NY and he is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, NY. His obituary notes that he ran a dance band as a teenager and was a well-known wedding photographer. He was survived by two daughters Suzanne of Whitesboro, NY and Marilyn of Rome, NY.
Edward Lewis TESSEY was b. 27 Jul 1886 in Utica, NY to parents Joseph H. TESSEY (1845-1928) and Phoebe Mary MADER (1856-1928) who were married in 1884. Edward had one sibling, a brother Joseph Henry TESSEY (1884-1949). Edward married Clara on 16 Sept 1914 in Utica, NY and they had the one son, Edward John TESSEY. Edward Lewis died 10 Oct 1937 in Utica, NY and is also buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in that city.
Clara Katharine or Katherine MOSER was b. 31 Jan 1887 in Utica, NY to parents George MOSER (1842-1921) and Katherine ERHARDT (1844-1887) who were married 8 Mar 1868 in Legelshurst, Arnt Kehl, Baden, Germany. Clara was one of 13 children born to this couple including George or Georg; Katherine, Katharina, or Catherine; Barbara; Barbara; Mary Maria; Berbard; Elizabeth or Elisabetha; Brigitta; Ricka; Freida; Anna; John Erhardt; and Clara Katharine or Katherine MOSER all born between 1866 and 1887. Clara died 7 Apr 1966 in New Hartford or Utica, NY and is also buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, NY.
I would like to get these photographs to family and appreciate you contacting me if you are a member of this family or know someone who might be.
Thanks,
Shelley
Shelley Cardiel:
tagged Edward John Tessey in this photo.
Shelley Cardiel:
updated the profile photo of Edward Tessey to Edward John Tessey.