MOTIVATION FOR COMPILING MY MEMOIR WAS TO LEAVE A SNAPSHOT INTO MY LIFE'S TRAVELS FOR WHOMEVER MIGHT HAVE AN INTEREST. WHEN I BEGAN AN INTEREST IN MY ANCESTRY, I FOUND THERE WAS LITTLE TO BE FOUND. FEW RELATIVES WERE LEFT AND THEIR MEMORIES SKETCHY. HOPEFULLY MY STORY MIGHT REVEAL A LITTLE OF WHO I HAVE BEEN AND ALLOW ME IN SOME WAY TO SHARE IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS.