Cindy's Story (as told by her older sister, Nomi):
This page deals with Cindy, so that you may get to know her. Cindy’s sister "Nomi" (pictured on the left) has consented to provide this brief biography (her own words). She has also provided us with the photos that you see here I hope it will touch your heart the way it has touched mine. I feel very fortunate to know Nomi. Although she is grief stricken and frantic to find some way to help her sister, she has taken time to provide the information on this and the next page. It tells the story from her point of view, and she was with Cindy on the night their mother’s death occurred. It is Nomi’s dedication that motivated me to see if I could offer my help. Such devotion between two grown siblings makes me know that they share a
special bond.
The year was 1954, when my precious sister was born. She was 4th in line in a family of 5 children, who welcomed this adorable baby into their midst. She had a soft fluff of brownish, black hair, and the prettiest, bright blue eyes, that sparkled and didn't miss a thing. I was 16 years old when she was born. Being the oldest of the five siblings...I loved to show this beautiful sister of mine to everyone. She was always so bubbly and had a sweet smile for everybody. Everyone wanted to hold her. In fact, an aunt who happened to be at our house when she and our mother arrived home from the hospital, took her and told the ambulance driver...."You didn't bring a baby, you brought a living doll". And she was right. We all loved her dearly. She was only 3 years old, when our family left Virginia. Altho she was born in Virginia, she really spent her youth growing up in Tampa, Florida, where the whole family lived for many years(from 1957 into the late '70's). She was always a very active child, with such a love and exuberance for life. She never cared for dolls much..she loved doing things like bikeriding, skating, was very sports-minded. She loved outdoor-sy activities. She took up lessons in rollerskating, and excelled at skating. She won trophies for dance-skating. She also loved to swim. She learned to play tennis, and excelled in it too, and won trophies here too. She used to describe herself..."I am like a racehorse, I want to get out and try and do everything". And she deeply loved her family. She hated it when as families sometimes do..one would be peeved at the other. She was always in there, trying to get everyone to get along again. She was high-spirited and loved life. She was tender-hearted..most anything sad would bring tears from her lovely blue eyes. She was always a very good student. She married right after high school graduation. But after a beautiful wedding, the marriage slowly, began to deterioate, as time went by. Unfortunately this was one of the events, that would begin to send her life downhill , in a spiral that never would really, re-adjust for her, ever again.
After a disastrous end to this marriage, she moved to Tennessee....Nashville, the country music scene. She came from a musical family..our own father, a multi-talented musicman/singer, was a pioneer in early country music radio, in Southwestern, Va, many years(1930's-1950's). There is a bio about him in Va's music archives, and several museums here. She loved all kinds of music, but especially country.. She decided she wanted to work in entertaining. She did modeling for a good while. She met her 2nd husband there(in Nashville), and he himself is a talented ventriloquist, and musicman. Each of them, did quite a lot of work there, appeared in videos, she continued to do some modeling, work in videos, small parts in movies, and commercials there. Eventually they would move from here, to Las Vegas, Nevada. He has been on TV numbers of times, does lots of gigs thruout Nevada, since they moved there, in the nineties. Both of them continued to do things such as movie extras, videos and a number of other pursuits they each enjoyed and could make money at. She still continued to do some modeling here too. I think it is obvious(from her picture)that she was a beautiful young woman.
The year was 1954, when my precious sister was born. She was 4th in line in a family of 5 children, who welcomed this adorable baby into their midst. She had a soft fluff of brownish, black hair, and the prettiest, bright blue eyes, that sparkled and didn't miss a thing. I was 16 years old when she was born. Being the oldest of the five siblings...I loved to show this beautiful sister of mine to everyone. She was always so bubbly and had a sweet smile for everybody. Everyone wanted to hold her. In fact, an aunt who happened to be at our house when she and our mother arrived home from the hospital, took her and told the ambulance driver...."You didn't bring a baby, you brought a living doll". And she was right. We all loved her dearly. She was only 3 years old, when our family left Virginia. Altho she was born in Virginia, she really spent her youth growing up in Tampa, Florida, where the whole family lived for many years(from 1957 into the late '70's). She was always a very active child, with such a love and exuberance for life. She never cared for dolls much..she loved doing things like bikeriding, skating, was very sports-minded. She loved outdoor-sy activities. She took up lessons in rollerskating, and excelled at skating. She won trophies for dance-skating. She also loved to swim. She learned to play tennis, and excelled in it too, and won trophies here too. She used to describe herself..."I am like a racehorse, I want to get out and try and do everything". And she deeply loved her family. She hated it when as families sometimes do..one would be peeved at the other. She was always in there, trying to get everyone to get along again. She was high-spirited and loved life. She was tender-hearted..most anything sad would bring tears from her lovely blue eyes. She was always a very good student. She married right after high school graduation. But after a beautiful wedding, the marriage slowly, began to deterioate, as time went by. Unfortunately this was one of the events, that would begin to send her life downhill , in a spiral that never would really, re-adjust for her, ever again.