My name is Bessie Van Tassel. I was born in Oklahoma. My parents divorced when I was five, and my mother bought us three children to Arizona, where I grew up.

I married when I was very (too young). We had 5 sons, but it was never a happy marriage, and finally divorced. I remarried the same year to Truman. It was the 2nd marriage for both of us.

I lost one son 4 months before his 18th birthday in an auto wreck. That was the hardest time of my life, but with God, my husband and one younger son I survived.

I went to work when my youngest son started school and worked until Jan. of 2003 when I retired to stay home with my husband who had fallen and broken a hip. In Sept. of 2003 I lost a stepson and 4 days later my husband.

My great-grandmother on my dad's side was a Choctaw, and traveled on the 'Trail of Tears' in the 1800s. In the Indian Territory, one of her daughters married a white man from VA whose grandfather had come from England. They had one son, (my grandfather) and he had my dad, which makes me 1/8 Choctaw. My mother's family came from England, Ireland, and Scotland, So, I guess you could say I am a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

I am a mother of four living sons, two step-children, grandmother of four, great-grandmother of 4, and a lot of step-grandchildren. I am a great-grandmother of four darling little girls. I share my home with my youngest son, his girlfriend and my youngest grandaughter, and two little dogs, both 12 years old, who think they are master of the house.

I have had a personal website since 1999. I started a website for my mother's poetry in 2000. She doesn't write anymore but her site is still up. In 2003, I started a second personal website but I discontinued that site in 2006. I brought some of those pages to this website that made this site larger. In Oct of 2009. I finally got my own Domian and changed my site name.

People ask me what I do on the computer. I love building web pages! To me it's like being creative that was never possible before. The Internet helps me to stay in contact with family and friends. I also enjoy watching a good action movie, reading a mystery novel, and doing crossword puzzles. I don't like housework or yard word anymore, and do just what has to be done.

God is my Savior. He helps me through all the crisis of my life.
See my Christan Poetry here

Thank you for visiting, and I hope you find something here you like!! PLEASE--- don't forget to sign my GUESTBOOK below.

This pretty background set is by, 'Whisper'
She makes lovely backgrounds
You can see all of them on her site
The top graphic she made for me.
Please don't take.

All images, graphics and writing within this site and it's pages were
taken from free sites, or permission was granted for me to use them,
or they are my own. Please, do not take without permission.
This site is created and maintained by: Bessie Van Tassel
Since 1999
Updated Jan 2010