November 2022

Grandma raising boy is eager to live her life

DEAR ABBY: I have been raising my daughter’s first child. “Joey” is 10, and he has been living with my husband and me full time for four years. I love him very much and enjoy being his “mom,” but I’m not good at helping him with homework. My daughter doesn’t have time for him. She has two other kids with a different dad. The stepdad has no desire to be a dad to Joey.

Read MoreGrandma raising boy is eager to live her life

Pamela Jean Ward

Pamela Jean Ward, 64, of Madill, Oklahoma passed away on October 26, 2022, at Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Texas. Pam was born on July 24, 1958, in Ardmore, Oklahoma to the late Charles Franklin Thomason and her living mother Peggy Ann Whisman-Bailey.

Read MorePamela Jean Ward