[lit-ideas] Re: Baptist Boots and Sisters

You find me diverting myself with tales of the Ducks' Dingler and Alpahare and Dwayne of the Shoalwater Bays, simply because it's easier than thinking about more pressing and serious matters. Lori Lee Dingler was an Oregon Ducks fan. Alphare "Allie" Paradis began life the youngest of 13 children born to George and Mary Coleman England of West Virginia. The obit makes no mention at all of a Mr. Paradis, but there must have been one--I doubt that in her generation you could get from England to Paradis all on your own. And so we come to the Shoalwater Bay "Indian tribe," as they are called in the obit, which has lost a lobbyist in Robert "Bob" Vernon Bojorcas. He worked to make "self-determination, rather than termination, the focus of government action." Among the survivors are his sisters, Patricia Bojorcas, Mary Jane "Pumpkin" Ulam, Elizabeth "Boots" Availia, Mercedes "Mercy" Martinez, Ethel "Doni" Rodriguez, Janice "Bubbles" Burgdorf and Joyann Bojorcas. I guess girls in that family take nicknames when they marry. He was a Baptist. Dwayne was his brother. 

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon


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