Hello !
My name is
Roy
E. Lewis Jr. I'm 54 years old and was born January 14 ,1953 at
Tampa , Florida ,U.S.A. Everyone
calls me Sonny....
why?
I don't know.
I have a
personal
dilemma that has me in a most perplexing state of mind.
A dilemma that
I have to solve before my life is to have any peace.
I guess this
may be a hopeless quest, but nevertheless a quest I have to
try to
accomplish.
I really don't know where to begin!
When I was five months old my mother, father and grandmother (my mothers mother) were all killed by a passenger train that hit their convertible car broad side on Monday June 15 , 1953 at Tampa , Florida in the North Boulevard crossing of the Foresthill area .
I was raised by
my
only living next of kin which was my fathers mother.
My grandmother was
50 years old when she got custody of me.
She had decided to
have me keep my birth name of Lewis instead of changing
it to hers which was
Fisher.
I'm named after my
father who was Roy E. Lewis and I'm Roy E. Lewis Jr..
My grandmother had
divorced my grandfather Lewis (my dads father) many years earlier and
had
remarried .
I was raised up with
her and a step grandfather, and their son ( my step uncle who was 12
years
older than me ).
My grandmother chose
to keep the past sheilded from me. ALL the
past.
Including that I had many other relatives other than her , And that
I had a half sister.
What
was on her mind , I will never know .
She
has passed on many years ago....
On April of
1999 I was given a box of old photographs in which most I had never
seen
. As I worked down through the box I found many pictures of my beloved
mother and father (parents that I had never known), some were of my
father
when he was in the Air Force along with many newspaper clippings of the
train accident.
Then all the
way down at the bottom of the box I found a small envelope. Written on
the outside was my fathers name and inside I found pictures of a small
child and a woman. They appeared to be native American and I did
not have a clue as to who they were.
I asked my
step
uncle who told me that when my father was in the Air Force in Hawaii he
had married a Hawaiian lady and they had a child.
From what I gather
from talking to my step uncle the family didn't think it was right to
marry
a Hawaiian, and for what ever reason (that I may never know) she went
back
to Hawaii with the child.