Following is a high school report my youngest wrote about Mama Sis. Just had to share.Patterson said:
Roots
My Maternal Grandmother-
Selina Patterson Pinkston
?Mama-Sis?
By: Jancy Steele
My grandmother was born as Selina Patterson on May 28, 1921 in Zebulon, Georgia. She was born into the family of D.S. Patterson and Elender Childers Patterson. My grandmother?s father was a North Georgia Methodist preacher, and her mother was a stay at home mom. She had a twin brother, Pierce, older sisters Daisy, Beatrice and Grace, and older brother Milton. For the first year of her life she lived in Zebulon with her whole family, where she then, moved to LaGrange, GA. After a year and a half she moved to Winterville, GA and moved 8 more times before she graduated from Toccoa High School.
Mama Sis attended Piedmont College for two years in Demorest, Ga. While attending Piedmont she met her husband of 59 years, Ewell Brown Pinkston (Daddy Brown). She went on to teach school for two years and soon after they were married on July 6, 1944. The early years of their marriage they moved many times, because my grandfather was a Marine pilot, and aircraft salesman.
After two years of a happy marriage my grandmother had her first daughter. In September of 1946, Rita Gail Pinkston was born to Brown and Selina in Canton, Ga. ?It is a wonderful feeling when you have carried that baby for nine months, most wonderful feeling in the world,? she said. Her second child, E.B. junior ?Buddy? was born in February of 1948 in Valdosta, Ga. Five years later in January of 1953 they had their third child, Sue Patterson Pinkston, in Gainesville, Ga. Their last daughter and my mother, Rebecca Ann Pinkston, was born on April 9, 1954, in Cherry Point, NC. Three years later the baby, Douglas Alan, was born to the large family of 7 in October of 1957, in Pensacola, Fl. Throughout their lives the children always remember having many people staying with them, including their grandmother who lived with them for 12 years. My grandmother said it was very traumatic when her children left home. She was then bored around the house and had no where to go, and no one to help.
After her children were out of the house, in college, married and having children of their own Mama Sis and Daddy Brown lived in a variety of places. For a few years they lived in Washington, D.C., Peachtree City, Ga., and they currently live in Santa Rosa Beach, Fl. Mama Sis has always been active in choir and piano at her home church. She is still very healthy and active. She volunteers many Wednesdays and Saturdays at a local thrift store, ?Caring and Sharing.?
Mama Sis has always been so willing to help anyone who needs it. I always remember her being right there for my mother in times of need. Whenever you need a hug, or a hand to hold, or someone to sing you to sleep, she would be there. A couple of my fondest memories of her are her trying to teach me to play the piano, and her always letting me beat her at cards, making me believe I was good. She can make anyone smile no matter what kind of day you are having, and doesn?t even know how she does it. If I had to pick one person my grandmother reminds the most of it would be Lucille Ball from I Love Lucy. She is crazy, spunky, funny, beautiful, full of laughter, and always wanting to share.
