H A P P Y 9 0 TH B I R T H D A Y !!! On September 20th we will celebrate the 90th Birthday of the matriarch or our family, our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother; DONNA LOU McALLISTER WADE. We thought it important that this edition of The Grandparent Chronicles be dedicated to her! Donna was born on September 20, 1928 in Mesa, Arizona to Luther ( that's where she gets the middle name Lou) and Susanna Johnstun McAllister. ( born at home - not in a hospital.) Her two older brothers, Edmond Luther and Marvin James and later Billy Bradford, then a little sister Dorthy Faye were the other four siblings which were all part of a close knit family. "Our father spent a lot of time playing with us" she recalls. " Some of my very earliest memories are of my father lifting me upon his hands and feet and me doing flips and tumbling with him." They also spent a lot of time playing