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If you need any help, we will be glad to answer your questions. Just go to the Support page, click on the Add Topic link, type your message, then click the Save Page button. Thanks for participating and see you around! --Support 12:32, 5 February 2012 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Next step: Review your GEDCOM [28 January 2016]You're not done yet! WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors. Now that you have uploaded HAWKINS -pa.ged, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing. We will keep your GEDCOM in the queue for two weeks to give you time to review it. Note: if your gedcom contains many errors or multiple families, we’d ask that you resolve and correct the errors, delete this gedcom and re-submit it without the errors before merging it with families already on WeRelate. If the gedcom is very large, we’d suggest breaking it up into separate files (or families) and importing them one at a time, which makes the review and correction process easier. Click here to review your GEDCOM Once you have finished your review and marked your GEDCOM Ready to import, one of our administrators will review your GEDCOM and finalize the import. This usually happens within 24 hours. You will receive a message here when the pages have been created.
[add comment] [edit] Next step: Review your GEDCOM [30 January 2016]You're not done yet! WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors. Now that you have uploaded HAWKINS - pa2.ged, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing. We will keep your GEDCOM in the queue for two weeks to give you time to review it. Note: if your gedcom contains many errors or multiple families, we’d ask that you resolve and correct the errors, delete this gedcom and re-submit it without the errors before merging it with families already on WeRelate. If the gedcom is very large, we’d suggest breaking it up into separate files (or families) and importing them one at a time, which makes the review and correction process easier. Click here to review your GEDCOM Once you have finished your review and marked your GEDCOM Ready to import, one of our administrators will review your GEDCOM and finalize the import. This usually happens within 24 hours. You will receive a message here when the pages have been created.
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[add comment] [edit] Working with Images and text [13 March 2017]Re: the placement of the Image on your User page - I actually think it looks fine as is. The software used on this wiki is called "Mediawiki", and they have a decent Help page for Images here. I find myself returning to it often when I forget how to do things. Our founder has not installed all of the options for formatting that are available, but most work. Re: text formatting - As you have probably noticed by now, "tabs" do not work the same way on a wiki as they would on a typewriter. Any blank space before a line of text is telling the program to render the text in "block style". Another helpful page I refer to often for formatting text in Mediawiki is here. Hopefully these tips are helpful to you. Best Wishes, --cos1776 18:10, 13 March 2017 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Amos Hawkins [5 January 2020]Susan, Notified of your changes to Amos Hawkins pages. Not sure exactly the why of your changes. I see that you changed some day dates, e.g. 06 to 6, and maybe there were some place double entries, e.g. deathplace="Union, South Carolina, United States|Union Co., South Carolina, United States" What is your relationship to Amos & Ann? Please respond to [email protected].
[add comment] [edit] Pages for living people not allowed [16 January 2022]Hi I can appreciate that you wish to leave a legacy on WeRelate of a page with information about yourself, but WeRelate doesn't allow Person pages for living people, even with their permission. Therefore, the Person page you have created for yourself, will, unfortunately, have to be deleted. You do have the option of putting all that information on your User page if you wish. This is a heads up that I plan to delete your Person page in a couple of weeks unless you ask for more time to move the information. Thanks--DataAnalyst 17:18, 16 January 2022 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Personal information [30 January 2022]This information was copied from a Person page for Phillip Ardath Hawkins. The following material was extracted from the book HAWKINS from Tipton County, Indiana. A Migrating American Family 1861-2001, Jonas E. Hawkins, Patriarch. Phillip Ardath Hawkins was born 3 June 1933 in Sharpsville, Tipton County, Indiana. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, and a first-class stamp cost two cents. One of the most vivid of Phil’s memories was of being put to bed in an open drawer of a chest, and the terror he felt, that the drawer would be closed and that his parents would forget and leave him there. Many years later, talking with his mother about how vividly the scene was imprinted on his memory, she remembered that they had been visiting with friends and that Phil had only been two or three months old at the time. Though the drawer in the memory had been plenty large enough, it had not occurred to him that there could be memories from that early in age. The 1930s were the years of the Great Depression, and the family moved about some responding to employment opportunities. They were in Springfield, Ohio in January 1940 when his father was employed by the Curtis Wright Aeroplane Company in Buffalo, New York. The family moved from Springfield to live with the mother’s widowed father in Sharpsville, Indiana. In November 1940, with war eminent, the father returned to Sharpsville having accepted employment with the Delco Radio Company in Kokomo, Indiana. Both of Phil’s grandparents farmed, and in 1941 ice was delivered to the home by truck, the bread man delivered bread as did the milkman, the huckster wagon offered groceries, and there were free outdoor movies in Sharpsville on Saturday night to encourage shoppers. Two young for most farm work there was lots of free time for play in the fields, woods, creek & gravel pit, and with the dogs, cats & young animals. A “Day in Infamy” 7 December 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The family was preparing for Sunday dinner, the noon meal, when the announcement came over their radio. Phil’s father, a Purdue graduate, held a reserve army commission as a first lieutenant and in April 1942 was ordered to active duty. In July the family joined him in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he had been assigned as an artillery battery commander in the newly forming 71st Infantry Division. On 30 October 1943, a cold, blustery, and snowy morning, Phil and Don with Phil’s friend Don Moore started for the early Saturday morning movie. The bridge to town on Colorado Avenue was a double bridge that crossed the creek and then the railroad. There was a stair in the middle of the two joined bridges, and with the snow whirling, they took it to get down to ground level and out of the wind. Cold, and huddled back under the bridge out of the wind for a moment, they saw some money. Scratching about with their feet they found more money. Excited, and with their pockets stuffed full of silver coins and green bills they returned the four blocks to home. Both parents were home, and the children made about three additional trips, filling their pockets and paper sacks with the money. It was everywhere they looked, stuffed into a corner of the bridge girders, in the straw on the ground, and under the loose dirt of the ground. Harold counted and stacked on the kitchen table, while the boys hauled it home. When the finding slowed down the police were called, the boys were interviewed by the police and the newspapers, and when the money went unclaimed they divided the $1300 equally. Harold, their father, was medically discharged (Scarlet Fever) from the Army in March 1944 and the family returned to Sharpsville, Indiana where they purchased a home. To earn spending money Phil and brother Don took up mowing yards (35 ¢ - $1.75), participated in scrap drives, gathered milk pods (for life vests) & purchased war stamps. There was time for swimming and a lot of basketball practice. They helped with the grandparents, opening gates and carrying water when crops were being collected. Phil started taking lessons on the clarinet, and later in high school was first chair clarinet and drum major with the band. In high school he was elected the freshman class president, and was moved to the varsity basketball team midway through the freshman year. That year, 1948, Sharpsville won the sectional basketball tournament for the first time since his father had played 20 years previously. During the summer he was working full time in the fields, haying, driving a tractor, and at the canning factory, and playing a lot of basketball. The fall of his junior year he was working for the grain elevator loading feed and hauling coal, which continued until his graduation. He was class president again in his junior & senior years, selected to a number of local “all-star” teams, and continued working at various jobs. He accepted an appointment as the Congressman’s first alternate to the United States Naval Academy, and became the appointee with the resignation of the primary. During his senior year he took two mathematics classes and a physics course at Indiana University extension in Kokomo, but failed a four hour academic test for the Naval Academy. Disappointed, yes, but, he had started dating Sharon Sue Wilcox. Following graduation in the spring of 1951 he went to work for the summer at the Chrysler Corporation in Kokomo, operating a gear cutter on the evening shift. He had savings enough for a year and matriculated at Indiana University in Bloomington in the fall of 1951. He augmented the savings serving tables during the evening meal in one of the sororities. Participating in the ROTC program exempted him from the draft and the Korean War that was ongoing. Exhausting his funds, he accepted a job at a local loan company collecting past-due payments and driving between Tipton and Indianapolis where he had transferred to Butler University. Completing his sophomore year there he had continued participating in the Air Force ROTC program. A full school load plus a full time job was demanding and he was considering applying for the Air Force flight cadet program. He and Sharon had continued to date, and Sharon was not at all big on the cadet program. It was decided the two could probably live as cheap as one, that both could work, and he should continue his education. They graduated in Butler’s centennial graduating class of 1955 with a BS In Business and a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. Jobs were scarce for someone with the military obligation pending. Phil was working as an agent with the Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company when their first son, Phillip Mark, was born on 30 July. In November, anticipating being ordered to active duty with the Air Force, they moved in with Phil’s parents in Sharpsville and he went to work for Delco Radio on their assembly line in Kokomo. Receiving active duty orders Phil reported for pre-flight training in San Antonio, Texas on 27 January 1956. In March the family moved to Marianna, Florida where Phil reported to the 3300th Pilot Training Group At Graham Airbase, class 57-J, for basic pilot training. There he first flew the T-34A, and then the T-28-A. In September the family moved to College Station, Texas where Phil had been assigned to the 3530th Pilot Training Squadron at Bryan Air Force Base for advanced pilot training where he would be flying the T-33, his first jet aircraft. Phil was on a training flight when their second son Stephen Douglas was born on 25 January 1957. Silver wings were awarded on 28 March 1957. The Air Force needed bomber pilots and most of the assignments were for the B-47. Fortunately, Phil stood high enough in his class that he was able to choose one of the few fighter assignments. The next move was to Glendale, Arizona and Luke Air Force Base for combat crew training in the F-84F. At the End of Training lots were drawn for further assignment. Phil was devastated when his drawing was for a T-33 target towing squadron assignment at Mitchell field in New York. He was allowed to trade for a three year assignment with an individual that wanted the shorter two year T-33 assignment,. The family boarded the USNS General Patch in New York on 11 September and departed, along with 461 cabin passengers and 13,048 troops and crew, for Bremerhaven, Germany for Phil’s assignment to the 48th Fighter Bomber Wing. There they boarded the troop train to Paris, and then a local train to Chaumont, France. They signed into the airbase on 21 September 1957 and were assigned to a room in the VOQ. Phil was assigned to the 494th Fighter Bomber Squadron, the Red Tails, one of three squadrons of the 48th Fighter Bomber Wing, officially The Statue of Liberty Wing (the only unit in the Air Force with a name designation in addition to the customary numeral). The family moved to the military housing area, 193 Lafayette Village, in Chaumont. Phil checked out in the F-100D, and then completed gunnery and nuclear delivery qualification at Wheelus Airbase, Tripoli, Libya. Phil’s duties consisted of a lot of sitting alert at Chaumont, and at a forward operating base in Germany. Flying consisted of low level navigation, in-flight refueling, aerobatics & fighter tactics, continuing gunnery and bombing practice missions, and a lot of the weather flying. Non-flying duties included Range Control Officer, temporary duties As Forward Air Control with the Army, mobile flight control, airdrome officer and assistant squadron intelligence officer. In the summer of 1959 France under the leadership of Charles DE Gaulle decided that nuclear weapons must be removed from the country. The 48th Tactical Fighter Wing (new designation) moved to Lakenheath Airbase in England in January 1960. Phil had intended to make the Air Force a career and had applied for regular commission. There was a fairly large augmentation of the forces going on, and Phil was surprised when he did not receive the regular commission. Figuring that something must be wrong in his record he decided not to pursue the service as a career. Phil went to Lakenheath on a temporary duty assignment for 60 days while the family remained at Chaumont. They returned to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey where Phil was released from active’s duty on 18 April 1960. The family visited with relation in Sharpsville, Indiana and Phil decided to rejoin The Provident Life And Accident Insurance Company accepting an agency position in sales in Springfield, Illinois. There they purchased their first home, and Phil got off to a good start with his new work. It was not long until the Air National Guard unit contacted him about flying with them. Initially there was no interest whatsoever but after numerous personal contacts by the squadron commander he was convinced that it was “fun” flying, and that it would provide extra money while they were getting established in the life insurance business. Business was good and the flying on weekends was fun with no additional duties. Phil received a promotion to the rank of Capt. in 1961, and then on 18 September their unit, the 170th Tactical Fighter Squadron flying the F-84F, was called to active duty during the developing “Berlin Crisis.” They remained stateside participating in numerous exercises, and with the end of the crisis were released from active duty on 1 August 1962. Phil was back in the insurance business. In the spring of 1963 the Provident agency was having financial problems and Phil made a change to the Northwestern Mutual Life Company, and then in October he was offered and accepted a full-time position with the Illinois Air National Guard as the Standardization/Evaluation officer for the new 183rd Tactical Fighter Group. This was a GS-12 position starting at $9475 per year. He was responsible for the standardized training of the pilots and their semi-annual proficiencies checks, and he assisted as an instructor in checking out new squadron pilots. He was averaging 40 flight hours each month (normal flying time for an Air Force pilot was 12 – 15 hours per month for fighter pilots) and loving it. In March 1964 the unit received an “outstanding” in all graded areas during a surprise readiness inspection by an Air Force Tactical Air Command unit. It was the first time any Air Force, Guard or Reserve unit had been awarded an “outstanding” in all areas. Phil received a personal letter of commendation from the commander of the 12th Air Force to which they were assigned. In April, completing eight years on flight status, he was awarded Senior Pilot Wings. In January 1966 Phil was raised to step three in his air technician job with a salary increase to $11,355 per year, and in June he was promoted to the grade of Major. At that time the Illinois air National Guard had no retirement plan. It had been in the works for a couple of years, but nothing had been completed. Phil had no interest in a job with the airlines, but felt that with the lack of a retirement plan he should interview. After his first interview with Pan-American he decided that he was going to make the change, and scheduled interviews with a number of the major carriers, United, American, etc. He was offered a flight position with each interview, and he accepted one with Braniff Airways in Dallas, Texas where he started in October of that year. The guard unit had wanted to keep him and they assured him that a retirement plan would soon exist. He was 33 years of age, and felt that he had to make the change. “It was the best job I ever had – period.” The family remained in Springfield to sell their home, and Phil, proceeding to Dallas, TX, started as a flight engineer on the Boeing 707. He transferred to the Arkansas National Guard in Fort Smith, Arkansas that was flying the RF-84F, a reconnaissance aircraft. The war in Vietnam had gotten pretty big, but very few reserve units had been activated. Braniff had a military contract, as almost all the national carriers did, and Phil flew a few of those flights carrying troops to and from the states and Nam. The Springfield home had sold in early November and the family was in a new leased home in Dallas close to Love Field for Thanksgiving. Following an early 1967 contract Phil’s salary was up to $425 a month (starting 1st year slave wage). Phil flew his final military flight on 19 April 1968, and transferred to the inactive reserve. The “recce” mission had been boring, and it was difficult commuting back and forth to Fort Smith. In October they purchased a new 2950 sq. ft. brick home at 4008 Willow Ridge in Dallas for $45,500, and started attending the Good Shepherd Episcopal church. He upgraded as a copilot on the Boeing 727 and gross income for the year was $19,036. In the spring of 1971 Phil was appointed to the vestry at Good Shepherd Church to fill an unexpired term, and in October 1972 he accepted an assignment to the 9001st Air Reserve Squadron, serving as a liaison officer for the Air Force Academy counseling with the Garland, Texas school district, and later in the Lake Highlands district. The family’s free travel on Braniff Airlines afforded him the opportunity to assist in the admissions office at the Academy in Colorado Springs. Phil, in January 1973, was elected to a two-year term to the good Shepherd Episcopal church vestry and was appointed as Junior Warden responsible for the maintenance of the church and grounds. During spring break that year the family enjoyed a 15 day tour to Rome, then the Holy Land, and then to Athens. In 1974 Sharon was elected president of the women of the church and the elder son Mark had gained his private pilot’s license and was a full-time student at Richland Junior College. While attending college Mark was flying night and weekends as a copilot hauling freight. Younger son Steve also completed his private pilot’s license, but never pursued flying as an occupation. Phil and Sharon were both singing in the church choir, and in the fall 1974 Phil started singing Lead (one of the four barbershop voices) with the Dallas Vocal Majority 100 member choir. In late June 1975 the chorus won with a standing ovation the SPEBSQSA International competition in Indianapolis, Indiana. Phil assumed the presidency of the Vocal Majority in 1978 their first year allowed back in competition after their 1975 win, moved to the Captain’s seat on the Boeing 727, purchased his first computer (a Tandy TRS-80), was recognized as the Air Force Academy’s outstanding Deputy Liaison Officer Coordinator In the South, and was appointed to serve on a new advisory panel to the Superintendent of the Academy. The Vocal Majority won the internationals “barbershop” singing contest again in 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Following that Phil ceased participation with the chorus. He was commuting to Denver to maintain his captain’s position, and any spare time that had become very limited had to be devoted to his military reserve assignment. In 1980 he was elected president of the Dallas chapter of the Air Force Association in April, was presented the Air Force Commendation Medal in April, promoted to the rank of Colonel in May, and in December received a new mobilization assignment to the joint command as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, J1, U.S. Forces Japan. In support of this assignment Phil’s training was changed to the Pacific Command, Camp Smith, Honolulu, Hawaii, and he and Sharon were at Yokota Airbase in Japan for about 17 days in April 1981. The economy had fallen back and Phil had bid back to a flight engineer position on the 747 that would provide him transportation between Dallas & Honolulu. He regained his captain’s position in July 1981 again commuting to fly out of Denver. Then, on 13 May 1982 Braniff International ceased all operations and filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Phil and more than 8500 employees were without a job. Two weeks after the shutdown Phil was contacted by a retired Air Force Colonel. that represented the board of a large organization that was setting up a new operation to deal in shiploads of oil. Phil met with the gentleman and was offered a new office in Plano, Texas with a starting salary and bonuses of $225,000. He was not sure who he was talking to and contacted some Pentagon Associates concerning the Colonel. He was ‘unknown’ and a couple of days later Phil was advised that the offer had been withdrawn. Almost Certainly the Central Intelligence agency; so much for the fast lane. It had been obvious that Braniff was in financial difficulty and Phil had purchased an industrial router to reproduce parts for one of his previous Air Force liaison officers that owned a large manufacturing company. This did not work out and they were soon in the wood products business manufacturing for gift shops, catalogs and a home party plan. Starting in the two-car garage, it slowly took over the complete home. In April 1984 they sold their Dallas home and purchased 15 acres near Rhome, Texas with a home and 6000 sq. ft. aircraft hangar to move the business into. Their youngest son, Steve, joined the business in July receiving a third of the stock. Braniff had restarted operations and figuring that he could manage the business and fly he returned to Braniff, accepting a copilot position to protect his seniority number. Flying for Braniff and managing a new business, Falcon Crest Wood Products, Inc., was very demanding and in October 1984 he chose to retire from his active military reserve position, a few months shy of 30 years of service. In 1988 Phil was appointed To the Board of Governors Of the Dallas Market Center Temporary Gift Exhibitors. At that time Steve, now acting as Falcon Crest’s president, started shifting production to oak and walnut conversion units for vans and pickup trucks that would soon occupy 50% of their production. Phil was flying Capt. again in 1989, but in November Braniff again ceased all operations. Braniff would later start up a third time, but Phil would choose not to return. His flying career had ended with more than 18,000 hours of flight time in his logbook. Square dance lessons were completed in 1991, and in 1992 Falcon Crest was finding it difficult to hire new employees and was turning away new orders. They added space to the hangar increasing its work area to 10,000 sq. ft. On Phil’s 60th birthday, 3 June 1993 he started receiving retirement pay for his 29+ years of military service. Additional benefits included commissary and exchange privileges & government healthcare. In 1994 the company lost a major account when the customer changed from wood automotive accessories to vinyl. Falcon crest was not having a good year in 1995, and later in the year Phil was diagnosed with prostate cancer, labeled angry. The prostrate was removed in January 1996, and during the six-week recovery he decided that it would be a good time to start work on the family history in earnest, and that he was not going to return to work full-time. By the end of the year he had completed a picture history of the sections on his great-grandfather Hawkins Jonas and Jonas’ eight children, totaling 60 pages 8.5 x 11” set in eight point type. Phil & Sharon were Presidents of their Decatur square dance club and the club was recognized as the North Texas 1995-96 club of the year. In 1997 they served as the NORTEX chairman For the sale of State Festival Tickets setting a new state record with $52,328 in sales. Following that they were elected as vice presidents of one of the eight areas for North Texas. Phil had also been elected as Mayor pro tem of the city of Fairview, the largest Inc. area in Wise County, Texas. In late 1997 Phil spent $3500 for two digital hearing aids. Phil and Sharon were re-elected for a second term as NORTEX area vice presidents for the 1998-99 term. They had driven 9, 872 miles during the past year in support of the North Texas square and round dance Association. Steve became sole owner of Falcon Crest Wood products, Inc. when Phil and Sharon returned all of their stock to the treasury. In March 1999 Phil also was granted a 10% service disability by the Veterans Administration for tinnitus associated with his years of military flight duty. That same month the mayor and the city secretary of Fairview resigned and Phil became the acting mayor tasked with correcting a number of problems that had developed. A new secretary was hired, new procedures were instituted, the books were audited, and a May date set for a new election. Phil did not participate in the new election. A discussion with son Steve in February 2000 on the advisability of continuing the business was ongoing. Steve was working long hours filling orders, but not making enough money. The economy was booming, labor was difficult to find, prices were stable, but competition was strong tempering price increases, and the government was threatening more regulations that would increase costs. In June he decided to sell, notifying customers that he would not be supplying their needs after 1 September. In July Phil and Sharon were appointed as NORTEX parliamentarians. .....End of material extracted from Phil’s book. In November 2000 a new five bedroom home was purchased at 2302 Forest Park Circle, in Mansfield, Texas, and, the sale of their Rhome property closed 21 March 2001. A large part of Phil’s time in 2001 was involved in completing his five generation family history, HAWKINS from Tipton County, Indiana. A Migrating American Family 1861-2001, Jonas E. Hawkins, Patriarch. The picture history contained 481 letter sized pages set in eight point Bookman Antiqua type with 2956 + pictures & illustrations of five generations that settled in Tipton County, Indiana. The histories were submitted by each of the family members, and the book also included history from the seven preceding generations that had begun the migration from Wiltshire, England in 1682, arriving in Philadelphia with William Penn on the Welcome. The book was indexed by his wife in January and February 2002, and Phil did a double check that he completed on 23 February. Global Publishing of Fort Worth quoted a price of $64,790 for printing 150 hardbound copies. That was more than a bit steep and self-publishing was decided upon. A color laser printer was purchased for $1085.34 and on 28 March the printing was started. The first 50 collated pages were taken to the Worth Bindery on 1 May. The Worth Bindery was paid $2860.51 for 151 hardbound copies. These copies were distributed to the family members and to libraries and family history associations within the areas that the family line had migrated through. Phil and Sharon continued to square and round dance, normally 2-3 evenings a week. They served as their clubs treasure and president, and the North Texas associations as parliamentarians, as treasurer, with facilities and on numerous other committees. Phil also served as a director for CASUL, Inc. that owned and managed the Swing Time Dance Center. With the move to Mansfield they joined St. Gregory’s Episcopal church, immediately becoming active. Phil started helping the Junior Warden with grounds maintenance and joined the choir where he sang both the bass and tenor parts as needed. Over the years they served as diocesan delegates and in all of the activities of the church. Phil started doing a picture directory each year served as treasurer for a period in the mid ‘00’s, and in 2016 he started doing the monthly picture newsletter. During these years he was the church photographer. In March 2003 he started the Hawkins Worldwide DNA project with family tree DNA. He served as the administrator until March 2013 when he asked another individual to take over as administrator, wanting to devote more time to his personal ancestry research. He would continue to act as an assistant for his Hawkins DNA Family Group - 04. Teaching himself to write HTML, he had started a website early on, at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html, and he volunteered to continue to maintain it. Also he had written a monthly DNA newsletter for the 10 years that are archived at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/. In April 2009 it was discovered that Sharon had developed Peritoneal cancer, a rare form that develops in the thin layer of tissue that lines the abdomen. Cause is unknown and they were told that it was treatable, but not curable. A carboplatin with Taxol treatment was started on 4 May and continued with eight treatments ending in October. On 30 March 2010 she started a series of Doxil chemo treatments that did not work, and they switched to a Gemcitabine series. In January 2011 they returned to the original goal carboplatin without the Taxol. Nothing was working and she died on 15 April 2011, and her ashes were interred in Columbarium B, CT3, Niche B-185, the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Their youngest son, Steve, had moved in with the family, and he would be a big assist to his father after his mother’s passing. Phil stayed positive and continued an active lifestyle in the church, with his family research and the DNA project and kept up a visitation schedule with family members in various locations of the United States. He chose to give up the dancing, but he did continue his lifelong walking pace and exercising schedule. Steve liked to cook and this was a great assist as Phil had no interest whatsoever with cooking. In April 2017, approaching his 84th birthday, Phil was in good health with some arthritis in his shoulders, hips and back.--DataAnalyst 01:57, 31 January 2022 (UTC) |
