Saturday, May 9, 2009

Uncle Richard's Girls

In response to a recent article on our BLOG called Vanishing Treasures, we have been given a wonderful opportunity to become acquainted with more of our family. Samantha Vance read the article and realized that she is related to us. Samantha is one of Uncle Richard's daughters. She gave me permission to post her picture on our BLOG in hopes that we would get a chance to know her better. She really didn't get to know her father very well because he died when she was a little girl. Samantha's mother remembers talking with our mother, Gatha many years ago. Her mother remembers going out to Colorado for funeral of one of her dad's brothers, she thinks it was Earl's funeral.


Samantha has two children, Kaiden Richard Vance named after his grandfather, and Natasha Jeanne who is is three years old.

Samantha's older sister is Angela. Angela is married and has three children, Daniel age eleven, Makenzie age four, and Elizabeth age three. Her little sister is married and has two step children and two of her own. Her children are Kiley age ten, Brendon age four, Salina age nine & Sasha age two.

Samantha sent two pictures one below is of Samantha's younger sister, Barbara, and her family.
The picture below is of Samantha's children and all her nieces and nephews.

I have invited Samantha to join us as an author on our BLOG. I am hoping that she will tell us more about herself, her sisters, and their families.

When I wrote the article, Vanishing Treasures, I never dreamt that sharing my feelings would bring me in contact with people so closely related to us. I can look at the two pictures above and see the family resemblence. I am grateful that they have been willing to share with us and am very anxious to pull them into the family circle.

5 comments:

Gloria said...

We are excited to hear about the family. Do you have any information as far as genealogical information.... husband's names, dates, places on any of the family? I would like to update my records.

Anonymous said...

Actually, my son, Brendon is only four years old, his birthday is not until November.

Kent said...

I have corrected Brendon's age.

Anonymous said...

This is Barbara (Vance) Deardorff and I thought it would be nice to let you know that since my baby girl Kayla was, nearly a year ago now, it would be nice to update this...

Kent said...

Barbara, we would be glad to update the entry, or add a new one if you would like. You can send me the information on Facebook and I'll add it to the blog.

We'd love to add pictures of Kayla.