Thank you for your honesty. I met Renee when she was a child and we have reconnected on Facebook. Mary's sister Dot took her in. My father stayed friends with Mary's family after their divorce. Though Mary iniated the divorce with my father, he could very well have left her at any time for the same reasons as Dr. Walston. I'm not at all surprised. Dad, of course, didn't talk about any of this. He was a very private person. I learned most of it from my mother (his second wife) after his death.

Renee and I were mostly looking for an obit, death cert, or other information concerning the plane crash and her mother's death. The family told her next to nothing. We were rather confused as we keep getting different stories about where the crash happened, and we have no idea in what county the death cert was filed.

I'd be willing to share more in a less public forum if you want to email me, achtland111@att.net. Thanks for sharing what you know. Shari