Randy Cooley
I REMEBER MY MOTHER SHIRLEY JEAN TARTER COOLEY CRONBACH FROM MY EARLY CHILDHOOD AND MY SISTER PAMELA JEAN COOLEY FROM RURAL CHAMPAIGN CPUNTY WALKING DOWN A DUSTY COUNTRY ROAD WITH HER AND MY SISTER PAM AFTER MY DAD FRANKLIN DELANO COOLEY WAS KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS ON GREEN STREETIN 1961 SHE SET FIRE TO OUR HOME AND PUT ME AND MY SISTER IN THE ROOT SELLER AND WE WALKED ALONG WAYS WITH MOM TO THE CLOSES HOUSE WHICH WAS A LONG WAYS DOWN THAT ROAD I REMEMBER LOOKING AT THE TALL GRASS AND LOOKING AT THE BIRDS AND COWS ETC.THE NEIGHBORS I DONT REMEMBER THERE NAMES GAVE US A RIDE IN THERE CAR OR TRUCK TO MY UNCLE PHILS WORKPLACE I DID,NT KNOW THAT MY DAD HAD BEEN KILLED YET I BELIEVE ME AND MY SISTER PAM HAD BEEN TAKEN TO OUR GRANDMOTHERS HOUSE GRACE B COOLEY WHERE WE WAITED FOR A CALL FROM THE HOSPITAL I WAS THREE YEARS OLD I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER GETTING A PHONE CALL AND EVERYONE WAS CRYING I WAS THREE AND DID NOT KNOW HOW THIS WOULD EFFECT THE REST OF MY LIFE BUT IT DID .I LOVE YOU MOM IM SORRY THAT MY STEPSISTERS AND BROTHERS DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW BAD I WAS TREATED BY MY STEPFATHER AND HOW MY KIDS WERE EFFECTED BY THERE ACTIONS ETC .BUT I LOVED MY MOM AND I MISS HER AND PAM BOTH