Left unknown right is mom

Left unknown rigth is mom, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Hi Buckles: I hope this email finds you well. Thank you for taking a look at these. I have followed your blog for a couple of years now since finding a post that related to a picture of the Flying Eldonas. The woman in the picture, Joanne Day is my birth mother. I was adopted at birth by Norman and Gayle Wadkins and raised as an only child. My parents worked for the Shrine Circus up to about 1966-68 or so, and only four years ago, I found my siblings. Eldon Day is the father of my three older half-siblings (Dodo, Joey and David), but mine, Johnny, and Michael's father was Joseph Pilla, and was called “Mabel” supposedly after Mabel the Elephant that kicked out his teeth – it’s kind of a sketchy story for me, but that’s what I recall Mom saying. Both Eldon and Mable are deceased and Joanne just passed away the first week of August in her sleep. It’s a long, involved and extremely splintered story which I will not bore you with. Dad (Norman) passed away when I was 5, and mom (Gayle) passed away in 2001, and at that time we were actively searching for my siblings. My mom always told me stories about that part of her life and we would break these and other pictures out of the old trunk. I am curious to see what I can find out about these, and see if any of these folks might still be around, although 1966 was quite a few years ago – I was three at the time. They are all marked 1966 on the back and I have labeled the pictures with the notes that were hand written on them. The woman marked as unknown... I remember visiting her house as a child and am thinking her name may be something similar to Janora or J'nora.... Just curious, Patti Kohrt-Munoz McAllen, Texas