Native Influence
My father was born William Harold Stanfield October 22, 1924. His obituary says he was born in Vigo County, Indiana, probably because he grew up on a farm and may have been born at home. He died October 5, 2013. His obituary lists his parents as Bertha and Jesse Stanfield of Vigo County, Indiana, his sister, Mildred Applegate of Indianapolis, two brothers, Robert Stanfield of Charleston, Illinois and Paul Stanfield of Paris, Illinois and a sister, Marie Kinney of Terre Haute, Indiana. They all died before him. He died just shy of his 89th birthday. Sometime after my father died, I tripped across this photo of an actor named Gary Farmer. Although most photos of Gary Farmer don't look like my father, that one looks eerily like it could be a photo of my father. Farmer's nose is different. My father's nose was more prominent, so profile views or three quarter views don't make me go "I've just seen a ghost." My father lost a lot of his hair in his twenties t...