Retracing Their Father's Footsteps... 73 years later!
Episode 801, Jun 13, 05:36 PM
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In early March, Radio ST. Pete received an email from New Zealand with an interesting story.
Maryellen Chandler and Anita Younger, both born here in the late 1940’s, have early memories of their time near John’s Pass where their mother and father, Jimmy Stewart, worked on several fishing boats after returning from WW2 where he served in the Navy.
Steward was skipper of the fishing party boat known as Miss Birmingham sailing out of John's Pass. He was once commended for his bravery after an emergency at sea with coverage of the incident reported in the St. Pete Times.
In 1953, the two very young girls followed their mother back to her home in New Zealand never to return. Thirteen years later their father was swept off a shrimp boat in the Gulf in 1966 and tragically drowned.
The sisters have always been curious to find out more about their father and finally, after seventy-two years, made the long trip back to St. Petersburg to visit family graves try to find out more about his life and where they all lived together so long ago.
Maryellen and Anita would welcome any additional information you may have about their father, Jimmy Stewart and his time at John’s Pass and along the Gulf Beaches. Please contact them at chandler.maryellen@gmail.com or reach out to us via at info@radiostpete.com.
Steward’s mother, and the sister’s grandmother was Rose Mae Karr (nee Goggin) who remarried after the death of her first husband John W Stewart on Sanibel Island in 1933. #johnspass #missbirmingham #fishing #history #stpete #stpetefl #tnt #stpetetimes #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #jimmystewart
Maryellen Chandler and Anita Younger, both born here in the late 1940’s, have early memories of their time near John’s Pass where their mother and father, Jimmy Stewart, worked on several fishing boats after returning from WW2 where he served in the Navy.
Steward was skipper of the fishing party boat known as Miss Birmingham sailing out of John's Pass. He was once commended for his bravery after an emergency at sea with coverage of the incident reported in the St. Pete Times.
In 1953, the two very young girls followed their mother back to her home in New Zealand never to return. Thirteen years later their father was swept off a shrimp boat in the Gulf in 1966 and tragically drowned.
The sisters have always been curious to find out more about their father and finally, after seventy-two years, made the long trip back to St. Petersburg to visit family graves try to find out more about his life and where they all lived together so long ago.
Maryellen and Anita would welcome any additional information you may have about their father, Jimmy Stewart and his time at John’s Pass and along the Gulf Beaches. Please contact them at chandler.maryellen@gmail.com or reach out to us via at info@radiostpete.com.
Steward’s mother, and the sister’s grandmother was Rose Mae Karr (nee Goggin) who remarried after the death of her first husband John W Stewart on Sanibel Island in 1933. #johnspass #missbirmingham #fishing #history #stpete #stpetefl #tnt #stpetetimes #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #jimmystewart