THE NIGHT I WAS BORN

 Hello, this is Starlight aka Connie Lynn James.  I want to share a story about the night (early morning) I was born.  

It is in the night of the 13th of December 1952.  Time is kept (Our time not God's) from midnight to midnight.  Place: The Franklin Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma.  Saturday December 13, my mom begins contractions and has them all day and into the night.  I don't know what time my dad takes her to the hospital.  She is admitted but they won't let my dad even stay in the lobby. He can't wait in the car.  It is very cold and snow on the ground. He is tired from working from sundown on Sabbath till early morning Sunday December 14.  He goes home and goes to sleep.  We have no telephone at the time, but my mom's cousin Lavetta Hinds and her husband Fred Riggs does.  My dad left their phone number at the hospital to call him, when the baby arrives.  I am born about 3:43 a.m. on December 14, 1952.  The hospital calls Fred and Lavetta to let them know I have been born.  Fred comes to the duplex on 10th and Cherokee in Claremore to let dad know.  He has to knock on the window three times to wake my dad up to give him the news.  

I want to add more to the above account.  Both my mom and her cousin Ramona Clark Brunson are expecting.  The babies are due around the same time.  This is Ramona and Leonard's third child (they already have two boys) and my mom and dad's second (they have one child older a boy.)  Ramona wants a little girl so bad.  They attend the same church the Church of God (Seventh Day) in Claremore, Oklahoma.  On Sabbath the 13th Mona is all excited.  She will have her baby first.  They are going to take it by c-section so she will be admitted on Sunday and the baby will be taken on Monday the 15th.  My mom doesn't tell her she has been having contractions all day.  Leonard brings Ramona to the hospital to check in and finds my mom has already had me.  Ramona is a red head and so am I.  While growing up Leonard and Ramona are like second parents to me. I am the little girl they never had.  Their baby is a boy David Leonard Brunson.  I am one day older and I tease him all the time.  Even after they move up to Owosso, Michigan to the church school Spring Vale Academy for Ken to go to High School, it still bothers Dave me being one day older.  

I hope you enjoy my little tidbit of history.

*STARLIGHT*


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