My mother's relatives

Momma, was born Nellie Bonstein b. Nov 11, 1916 in Pawnee Oklahoma. I must say off the top mom lived through the dust bowl days, and people from OK weren't thought of to highly. So Momma wouldn't let us go barefoot or listen to country music. Such a shame I go barefoot all the time now..LOL!

My mother's father was George Torrance Bonstein he was born 24 Mar 1885, in Stockdale, Ks.  He died as a causality of a Japanese attack on the coast of California.
I know most of you reading this will say hogwash, well maybe even bull...... instead. And you might be right and you might be wrong.  In November of 1942 George Torrence Bonstein an excellent swimmer, was drowned in the Pacific Ocean just off the southern coast of California. His body washed up on the Venture, Ca beach. Grandfather had been out deepsea fishing off the coast line the boat dissapeared about 10 days before he was found on 10 November.

The fishing vessel was blown apart and about the same time in the same area an Oil field was hit with artillery from off shore, actually the Japanese Submarine was spotted so they knew where the shells came from.

We the family heartily believe his vessel was torpedoed. There are newspaper accounts of the shelling on my website.

Nelda