Mystery Monday - a BIRTH - a new Life

Today is all about me now..........  yes this is my day!! 

JUNE 30 Alliance, Stark County, Ohio USA 

                                    Sandra Lee GARDNER (Aberle-Benward)- that's me!!!

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Alliance Review Newspaper:  birth announcement read:

BIRTHS:
Mr & Mrs John Patterson Gardner Jr, 2214 South Linden Ave daughter born Sunday morning
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Simple and sweet and there you have it, I was introduced to the world or at least to the City of Alliance. My dad (John Patterson GARDNER Jr) just got out of the US Army and actually so did my mother (Mary Jane LITTLE). They came home to Alliance and moved in with my dad parents (John Patterson Sr & Margaret BRANFIELD GARDNER) while looking for a place of their own. My parents contracted to have a new home build but unfortunately it was not finished before my mom brought me home from the hospital. So we all continued to live with my grandparents till the house was finished. So my grandparents home at 2214 South Linden Ave was my first home. Soon after the new house was complete and we moved in to our own place....... my second home.

Soon after we moved into our new home, my dad decided to go back into the Army, and my journey as an Army brat begins with moving every 2 years- first to Germany, more Germany, & even more Germany, El Paso, Texas, and then San Francisco California. Fast forward many years later in 1969 married and going back to Germany as an adult as an Air Force wife and then back to Sacramento, California in 1972 as a very pregnant Air Force wife, 1976 another beautiful son, divorce, remarried ............. and lived happily ever after.

Happy Birthday to Me
Happy Birthday to Me
Happy Birthday 
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to Me..............

AND sooooooo many many more!!!!