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Christon Basham
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Nice Guy ~ Well Educated ~ Multi-Lingual - Internationally Travelled ~ Citizen Of The World ~ Living The Life Of Reilly
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Kathy Pinna
I'm a Founder of AncientFaces and support the community answering questions & helping members make connections to the past (thus my official title of Founder & Content and Community Support ). For me, it's been a labor of love for over 20 years. I truly believe with all of my heart that everyone should be remembered for generations to come.
I am 2nd generation San Jose and have seen a lot of changes in the area while growing up. We used to be known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" (because the Valley was covered with orchards and there were many canneries to process the food grown here, which shipped all over the US) - now we have adopted the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley" and Apple, Ebay, Adobe, Netflix, Facebook, and many more tech companies are within a few miles of my current home in San Jose (including AncientFaces). From a small town of 25,000, we have grown to 1 million plus. And when you add in all of the communities surrounding us (for instance, Saratoga, where I attended high school, living a block from our previous Mayor), we are truly one of the big cities in the US. I am so very proud of my hometown. For more information see Kathy - Founder & Content and Community Director
My family began AncientFaces because we believe that unique photos and stories that show who people are/were should be shared with the world.
My family began AncientFaces because we believe that unique photos and stories that show who people are/were should be shared with the world.
Lizzie Kunde
My name is Lizzie Kunde and I am the newest member of the AncientFaces Support team!
See more info about me here: Lizzie - Community Support and I look forward to getting to know our wonderful members. Feel free to reach out with any questions, happy to help :)
My mom's side of the family is Swedish (and still lives in Sweden) and she instilled in me lots of Swedish heritage and traditions which has made me who I am today. My dad's side of the family is German and Irish and the most likely the side of the family I get all my freckles from. Family is so important, and welcome everyone to discover more about them, their history, and share about their loved ones who make up the history of who we are!
My mom's side of the family is Swedish (and still lives in Sweden) and she instilled in me lots of Swedish heritage and traditions which has made me who I am today. My dad's side of the family is German and Irish and the most likely the side of the family I get all my freckles from. Family is so important, and welcome everyone to discover more about them, their history, and share about their loved ones who make up the history of who we are!
Daniel Pinna
I want to build a place where my son can meet his great-grandparents. My grandmother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch always wanted to meet her great-grandchildren, but she died just a handful of years before my son's birth.
So while she didn't have the opportunity to meet him, at least he will be able to know her.
For more information about what we're building see About AncientFaces. For information on the folks who build and support the community see Daniel - Founder & Creator.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
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I want to build a place where my son can meet his great-grandparents. My grandmother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch always wanted to meet her great-grandchildren, but she died just a handful of years before my son's birth.
So while she didn't have the opportunity to meet him, at least he will be able to know her.
For more information about what we're building see About AncientFaces. For information on the folks who build and support the community see Daniel - Founder & Creator.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
Sophia Jeanette Harper of Northfield, Rice County, MN was born on December 30, 1912, and died at age 96 years old on May 15, 2009.
She was awesome.
She dabbled in Wiccan white magic, believed in the supernatural played with Ouija boards and once told me she could astral project her spirit to travel outside her body and go anywhere her fancy desired. I totally believe she could indeed do just that.
My aunt Barbara was an amazing person. She and her two daughters, Tashina and Lisa lived right across the alley from us when we lived on Manchester.
She spent years in a spectacularly violent relationship with a man named perk. I remember being very young and finding a three inch stiletto with the bloodied heel cacked in dried blood.
I still have the scar on the back of my head where he hit me with the metal part of a mop and cracked my skull wide open.
There were almost no choices for woman back then. Is it ironic or just sad they have even less now?
She found finally the strength or perhaps only just made the simple decision to get out. But discovered quickly she would have to leave the state to ever truly escape and moved back to McKeesport before I was 10 with her two girls Tashina & Lisa. They never returned unfortunately. And I never saw or spoke to her or her girls again.
~+~
You were a most extraordinary soul aunt Barbara. I hope you've found and now live in the midst of your bliss.
I know almost nothing about my aunt Lois. A devout christian, she has been married to her husband for more than 40 years.
They have owned and lived in the same house longer than I've been alive (I am 57).
I love my aunt Lois very much. My heart breaks as she lost her mother not too long ago. Now just this past March she lost her sister Betty.
was born on April 5, 1943 in McKeesport Pennsylvania. She was one of 10 children but her sister Betty Dixon was her absolute favorite. As beautiful physically as my mother, Betty was a pistol. Easily going toe to toe with any man I once watched her just manually pop her dislocated jaw in place after she shot her mouth of to the wrong dude at the wrong time. I was amazed how completely unfazed she was as she sat there at the dinner table spinning the tale and just popped her jaw back into its socket mid sentence before then just continuing on with the telling of her story and laughing about it.
She was beautiful and kind strong in all the best ways. I would like to believe she did have her once upon a time and even met her prince charming. She found love with a gent named Calvin and they lived happily together for decades before her passing. I met him once joining them on one of their yearly trips to Vegas.
She was my favorite aunt. I loved and will always miss her very much
Gloria Patricia Basham was my mother. I am her second born son, LaMont Christon Basham.
I know all kids say this about their mother, but my mother Gloria really was beautiful, inside and out. Men would make absolute fools of themselves to get her attention. I'm not exactly sure how she pulled it off but gave them nothing when we were around and it only seem to delight them ignite them in crazy ways that only made them try even harder.
My brother Troy and I would just laugh.
Beyond just her physical attractiveness however, she was a light. Certainly the world seems a darker place since she's moved on. She would not just give the shirt off her back but the very food from her plate if you were hungry or just more in need.
~A work in progress~
Gloria Basham
Gloria Basham
Troy C Basham was born on October 1, 1968 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Troy Basham.
Gloria Patricia Basham was my mother. I am her second born son, LaMont Christon Basham.
I know all kids say this about their mother, my mother Gloria was beautiful both inside and out. She was the kindest most beautiful spirit I've ever known. She would not just give the shirt off her back but the very food from her plate if someone else was more in need.
When she died, I dissolved. Before tonight, I’d intentionally forced myself not to know the time day or even year she died. Only now, 26 years after her death am I ready to tell her story...
Gloria Patricia Basham was born on April 5, 1943 in McKeesport Pennsylvania. She was one of 10 children but her sister Betty Dixon was her absolute favorite. As beautiful, both inside and out, as my mother, she and Betty were inseparable. I'm not even sure which was the elder as they could easily have been twins.
The dates for me are fuzzy and since I no longer speak with anyone in the family (including my younger brother Troy Basham) I am ok with that. Such specifics are completely unimportant to the narrative so you will forgive me dear reader if I gloss over them.
By the time I was born in 1966 my mother already had a 2-year-old son: Anthony. Except for the morning of the accident, I have almost no memory of him at all except how much he loved me. Only with him did I feel completely safe.
I remember too sitting in the back seat of the car terrified of the violent rain the morning he died, killed sitting in the front seat of the car on my mother's lap when her husband Pryce Basham, ran a red light driving drunk and collided with another vehicle. I was only two years old.
Tony and my mother was thrown from the car where Tony was killed instantly. My mother and I were scared for life on our faces. Pryce walked away completely unscathed.
He'd lied to her, about everything, to trick her into marrying him. He said he owned his own home, was college educated and earned a good living. When in reality he still lived with his moma (who would clean his filthy roach infested section 8 subsidized apartment in watts every year), didn't have a pot to piss in and never made it out of junior high. My brother told me one of his sisters told him Pryce took the slow bus to school. But enough about him. I've no interest in telling his story.
When my mother was dying, I verified with her what I remembered: Her standing outside in the rain, holding Tony in her arms, arguing with Pryce, begging him not to drive
I don't really know why he never went to jail or faced any consequences at all. I can only say things, like riding in cars with your babies in your lap sans seat belts, were different then.
I do know suddenly there was a story being told about that day. And somehow the alcohol and the part it played in the tragedy was no longer a part of it.
I’m not sure how my mother went on, or how quite frankly, she was able to have another child with Pryce. Not just because he’d killed Tony, but because she was so far out of his league in every sense. But on October 1, 1964 my younger brother Troy was born.
Shortly thereafter she left Pryce and moved in with her sisters Betty and Lois who I believe is the oldest. I have absolutely no memory of this time.
It was not until we moved to a small duplex on Manchester about a mile east of Western did I start to form memories that stuck.
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Gloria Basham
Gloria Basham
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Gloria Patricia Basham of Riverside, Riverside County, CA was born on April 5, 1943, and had siblings Betty June Dixon, Lois J Gaines, and Barbara Ann (Harper). She was the mother of LaMont Christon Basham and Troy Basham. Gloria Basham died at age 54 years old on July 25, 1997.
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