My name is Bessie Van Tassel.
I was born in Oklahoma. My parents divorced when I was five,
and my mother bought us three children to Arizona, where I
grew up.
I married when I was very (too young). We had 5 sons, but it
was never a happy marriage, and finally divorced. The same
year as my divorce. It was the 2nd marriage for both of us.
I lost one son 4 months before his
18th birthday in an auto wreck. That was the hardest time of
my life, but with God, my husband and one younger son I
survived.
I went to work when my youngest son started school and worked
until Jan. of 2003 when I retired to stay home with my
husband who had fallen and broken a hip. In Sept. of 2003 I
lost a stepson and 4 days later
my husband.
Truman had been sick for several years and I think he grieved
him-self to death, although the doctor said it was a heart
attack. He died sitting at the kitchen table, and I thank God
he didn't suffer long. We had been happily married just 33
years and I still miss him everyday, but he is where he and
God want him to be. It is hard, but by letting my loved ones
rest in peace, I can go on with my life. I decided to stay
retired and work on my websites.
My great-grandmother on my dad's side was a Choctaw,
and traveled on the 'Trail of Tears' in the 1800s. In the
Indian Territory, one of her daughters married a white man
from VA whose grandfather had come from England. They had one
son, (my grandfather) and he had my dad, which makes me 1/8
Choctaw. My mother's family came from
England, Ireland, and Scotland, So, I guess you could say I
am a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
I am a retired mother of four living sons, two step-children,
grandmother of four, and a lot of step-grandchildren. I am a
great-grandmother of three darling little girls.
One son and his 16 year-old-daughter live with me. It helps
us all out. We share our home with our two little dogs, both 10
years old, who think they are master of the house.
I have had a personal website since 1999. I started a website
for my mother's poetry in 2000.
She doesn't write anymore but her site is still up. In 2003,
I started a second personal website but I discontinued that
site in 2006. I brought some of those pages to this website
that made this site larger.
People ask me what I do on the computer. I love building web
pages! To me it's like being creative that was never possible
before. The Internet helps me to stay in contact with family and friends. I also enjoy
watching a good action movie,
reading a mystery novel, and doing crossword puzzles. I don't
like housework or yard word anymore, and do just what has to
be done.
God is my Savior. He helps me through all the crisis of my
life.
See my Christan Poetry here
Thank you for visiting, and I hope you find something here
you like!! PLEASE--- don't forget to sign my GUESTBOOK below.
