Happy Birthday, Mom!

This day in history, 1954 (a LONG time ago), my mother, Pamela Jane Stapler Byrd, was born in Orlando, Florida, where her parents had relocated in the early 1950's. Mom grew-up far away from Madison County, where both of her parents were born; but sometimes visited the Big Cove Community where her aunt, Mary Hinshaw Long, lived and attended the Big Cove Free Holiness Church. It was on one of those visits that she caught the eye of a young Big Cove boy - my dad, Ronald Dale Byrd. Several years later, March 25, 1977, they stood in the Big Cove Free Holiness Church and exchanged vows before Bro. Hoyt Dalton. And in those vows, Mom became not only a Byrd (Bird), but also a Big Covian. The rest, as they say, is history! Happy Birthday, Mom! I love you very much!!! -BYRD