Mama's Mysteries
What I remember always having known about Mother was her name and vital statistics. Geraldine Elizabeth Dubisson Lee. Born August 25, 1917, in Butler Pennsylvania. Hometown, Little Rock, Arkansas. Daughter of Daniel Joy and Clara (Stacker) Dubisson (Doo' bis son).As far back as I can remember, the only living relatives I ever knew of on Mother's side were her Aunt Thelma Burke--Miss Lula's sister in Forrest City, Arkansas--and a cousin, VanNess McHenry, who worked at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. I remember visiting them both maybe once. By the time I was in my teens both of them had died. I gathered from some hushed remarks that at one time, while Miss Lula was still alive, Mother and Aunt Thelma been close, but at some point they had become estranged. But children didn't need to know about these things...
The Downtown Motor Inn, Little Rock |
Mama and baby Harold, 1953 |
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