How awesome to connect with someone. Even if we aren't related, it's always fun to meet new people. I don't know much about my dad's family except that they came from Odessa in the early 1900's. They had 2 sons, my dad, Norman and Fritz, who was a few years older. I have traced the Tokar back to Ellis Island so somewhere I have the exact years. I seem to think it was about 1917 and Dad was born in 1919 (or 1920) in Newark, NJ.
How lucky for you to have found someone while surfing and searching. My husband of 30 years died suddenly in May a few weeks after his 70th birthday. What a shocker. He was skiing in Feb with our daughter and had played tennis that weekend with our son. We were heading to Mexico to SCUBA dive for our 30th anniversary.
Since I spent 1/2 my life with him, it is a pretty big void! He was gentle, kind, stable and really handsome. That's not just my opinion, everyone thought he was 10 years younger. I used to joke that he'd sold his soul to the devil and somewhere a picture of him was aging as he was not!
I am getting my life back together. Luckily I'd been single until I was 30 so being single again isn't as shocking as it is to some women who never lived on their own, but it is really wierd to be back in the "single" world at 61! I've kept myself in fairly decent shape, but 60 is 60 no matter how you slice it :-). I live in SC, but my daugher is in CA. I wish we lived closer. My son enlisted in the Marines a few months after Roger died. He finished boot camp last month and is now at Infantry School in NC.
Keep in touch when you can. My regular email is
whatusea@aol.com.
Thanks for contacting. Have a wonderful holiday.
Debbie