“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.” - Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn Katherine Jamison In many ways my mother's aunt, Katherine Jamison, was a mother to her. She provided physical and emotional support to Mom throughout her high school years. She also filled the Gramma niche for me, and it is easy to call and remember her as Gramma Kit. On March 1, 1917 she married the love of her life, Lonnie Parker. Throwing caution to the wind, the couple were often seen riding a motorcycle with a side car up and down the dirt roads on the Colorado mountainside. Alonzo (Lon/Lonnie/Lawnie) Grant Parker Born: October 7, 1893 at Good Hope, Illinois Married: March 1, 1917, Katherine Jamison Died: October 30, 1918 Father: Ellsworth Parker, born January 1862, in Illinois (his father was born in Wisconsin and mother in Ohio) Mother: Amy L. born, December 1870, in Illinois (h...
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