Charles & Carolyn Spratt with our two sons 1978 about a year before her death.

March 28 1979 is a date that will live on in the memories of my family for ever . That is the date that my first wife , the mother of my first two son’s died in child birth . You can read my story about that titled “ A Big Shock” . I would make a link to it if I knew how . But since I don’t know how I won’t . But that was my oldest son’s sixth birthday and Charlie was only 3 and half years old . Can you imagine what it was like for me to have to tell two boys this age that there mother wasn’t coming home again and why . I remember Charlie standing outside one afternoon looking up into the sky and asking me if his mother was up there . I told him yes . She had gotten saved about 2 years prior , plus I believe God has a special place for mothers that give their live in childbirth .

She was born Carolyn Sue Scroggins December 5 1950 in Ada , Pomatoc , Oklahoma . Her father was Elmer Vadie Scroggins and her mother was Betty Sue Mullins . She had one brother about two years older than her but she was oldest of three girls . Her father had been married before with one son being from that family but no one knew where he was . Her mother had died when Carolyn was thirteen years old and her father had remarried another woman and had another daughter with her . When Carolyn was a senior in high school and one of her sister’s was a junior they both moved out together onto an apartment to get away from their step mother . Carolyn Graduated High School and went to work full time to support herself and her sister . Her father even though he was getting money off of social security for them from their mother he only brought them one bag of groceries a month to live off of . Carolyn’s mother’s side of the family never liked her father very much for that reason .

Carolyn and I got married August 27 1972 at Bible Baptist Church in Ada Oklahoma . We lived in Ada for about six months afterwards but since Ada was such a small town it didn’t offer much in the way of employment so we decided that we would move to Oklahoma City where I had already got a job at a furniture factory . We rented a small one bedroom apartment off of a man named Mr Losinger . He owned several buildings and was a super nice landlord . We stayed their until our oldest son was born and we out grew the apartment .   We moved around two or three different places in Oklahoma City in a total of seven years until I finished technical school and we moved to Mineral Wells Texas . That’s when I went to work for Mepco Electra .

Carolyn enjoying fishing with her two sons at Mineral Wells Texas Lake

I guess Carolyn’s father is the reason why after she died people ask me “ What are you going to do with your kids ? Are you going to take them to your mother?”  I would answer them “ No they ain’t  her’s  their mine.” I mean good grief why should I give up my kids just because I am single parent . And I am JUST a man . I ain’t  stupid . I can learn how to cook and clean house . Guess what . I did learn and it didn’t kill me . It wasn’t easy but I’m still breathing . My kid’s didn’t turn out perfect but I think I can pat myself on the back a little bit . I’m proud that I didn’t take them back to my mother to raise.