Sara/Kirk/Bill -

I found your messages on ancestry.com...my father was jim ekwall, the youngest brother of dwight...

kirk - i met you when i was about 7 at grandma ekwall's...there was another boy with you...and you two were several years older than me...i remember that we pretended to get married... : )

sara - i haven't seen benny in years...he didn't come down to grandma's very often...i've lost touch...he's probably 10-12 years older than i am...how many kids did he have?

bill - i think your mom was ann...when i was very little, we lived on moore street, maybe 1/2 a block away from her...she would save the toys from the boxes of cereal that she ate & when i came to visit, she would give them to me...i used to call her "Ann Ann"...(it took many years before i realized that everybody was saying "Aunt Ann")...

i have email addresses for jack & dar (who live in indiana & who never had kids)...i have email addresses for jerry & carolyn (who had 2 kids, alicia who now lives in japan & william who, i think, is a park ranger)...i have an email address for richard somewhere, but i can never get him to write me...i even have an email address for my brother robert ekwall, who is quite an interesting character...and my mom, linda, is on-line now as well...

most of the family refers to me as "tammie ekwall", but i now go by tametha tracey...i married a man from eldon, ia named jim...got tired of all the jim & tammy faye bakker jokes...changed my name to tametha...i have 2 beautiful boys (ryan, 7, and hunter, 5 1/2)...got divorced a few years ago, but now i'm currently engaged to a marine from kc...

write me & i can fill in details about the family...i grew up in ottumwa & if there's something that i can't remember, jack should be able to fill in the details...

tametha : )