This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhB.2ACE/1186.1.1 Message Board Post: I am so excited someone replied. maybe this info will help. I am michelle Rene Purdy Masavage ( born in Meridian Miss.) Daughter of Clydeene and Charlie Joe Purdy. I have one living brother Charles Michael Purdy of Dallas ( born in Rhode Island). We had two siblings that died in a base fire in Japan I believe in the early sixties. There names were Mark and Deann I believe them to have been about 4yr and 2yr. My grandmother was Mary Leona Harrell ( I also thought her maiden name was stickland but I may be wrong. She had the following children. Jaunita Grace Marvin (pete) Robert James Thelma faye ( I was raised by this aunt) Howard Gene and my biological mom Clydeene. To my knowledge they were all born in Texas or La. It is sad to be 40 years old almost and have lost most of your family and then realize how little you know about them. to make this even more complicated the man I just told you was my dad,,, is not my dad. apperently my mom and her highschool sweetheart produced me somewhere along the way. I didnt find this out till I was 18 my bio dad is Brooks Keasler. When Clydeene was killed in an MVA Charlie Joe did not want my brother and I and sent us to live with Thelma Harrell ( Toland) and Earnest Toland. Earnest passed away when I was 12 of lung cancer. and Thelma remarried to a man named Thomas Dean Huff. he is also deceased. Robert is the only living sibling of Leona Harrell. he just turned 75 on sept 7th Hope this is a little more information