About Angel's life choices

 

When Angel was 17 in 1993 she was getting into serious trouble. At the time she was living with her mother, Beverly Barteaux, in Modesto and going to high school, but not doing well. She had been caught for shop lifting, crashed her car, purchased for her by her grandfather Barteaux entirely wrecking it. She was also dating an older guy, the manager at the local Taco Bell there in Modesto and unwilling to accept her mother's rules. She had been attending high school but was not doing well. During a domestic dispute over her staying out with her boy friend at night a physical argument erupted. Angel called the police and had her mother jailed. Her grandparents and her brother and sister-in-law, Jillkster, were all fed up with her. Her mother was no longer willing to have Angel living with her, either, when she turned to them for help, again. Angel had lived with her grandparents on and off over the years. They could not deal with her. It was decided, probably by Dean, she should just move into Richard Senior's home, vacant since is death two months earlier. Therefore, she was shipped off with a girl friend, Brandy, to live at the house in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which had belonged to her father. Jillkster accompanied the two girls and got them settled in, ensuring they had all they needed. Jillkster was also the one handling the allowance and paying the bills. Angel had to do nothing but go to school. A new Ford Escort was purchased for her. Angel complained because it was not what she wanted. Brandy only lasted for 24 hours. She called Jillkster from the home of Richard Senior's old girl friend, Peggy, begging to come home because Angel was being entirely unreasonable about everything. Jillkster says Angel was a pathological liar and refused to cooperate on anything. Angel signed up to go to high school, attended for a month, then dropped out. The partying began immediately. She was outraged to discover her allowance was cut in half because Brandy was no longer there. “Tough,” said Jillkster. Shortly thereafter, just a little later in 1993, Jillkster received a letter from Chayla Rae Brown, a connection of Peggy's , telling them Angel was using drugs, not going to school, and hanging out with a druggy guy, Jason. Disgusted, the Barteauxs stopped sending Angel any money. The house was in the names of Angel and her brother, Richard, Junior as tenants-in-common. Ignoring the fact she did not actually own the house, Angel sold it, taking the entire proceeds of around $76,000. The following year there was a shot gun wedding because she was pregnant by Jason. Married October 14, 1994, giving birth on January 9th of 1995. Jason was working as a cook at Denny's in Cheyenne. Angel was staying home. The couple was receiving food stamps. Shortly thereafter she became pregnant again with Sarah. The new baby was born May 31st, 1996. While she was pregnant with Sarah, Angel began calling the Barteauxs for help. Her mom, Beverly, went down to help when Sarah was born. The Barteauxs spent $86,000 for a house trailer so she and her kids and husband would have a place to live. After Sarah was born Jason began battering her. Angel sent pictures of her bruises. By October 1996 Angel reported the abuse from Jason was too much for her to take. She decided she wanted a divorce and to return to California and get a trailer home there. The trailer was sold at a huge loss. Angel returned to California in the same Ford Escort which had been purchased for her when she relocated to Cheyenne. The Barteauxs again dipped into Angel's trust fund and bought her another trailer home, this one in Modesto. The divorce was finalized. Jason paid nothing. Angel was sold a used Jeep Grand Cherokee, which had been owned by Jillkster and Richard, Jr. An attempt to allow her to have credit cards ended after one month. Angel had blown through $20,000 on trinkets and junk. Right after she moved to Modesto she met Damann Rogers and, again, fell in love. Rogers adopted her kids. They lived in the trailer home purchased for Angel until they got the inheritance after Betty died and then bought a house, where they still live. The Barteauxs paid for Damann to go to school to repair copiers. Today Angel does passion parties, selling sex toys, to make money and receives a monthly stipend from her trust fund.

The Explanation Needed

 The gentle reader might wonder why I felt it necessary to provide the facts of the matter.  Those asking this question should rest assured my reasons were well thought out and long deliberated.  

First, I left Richard Lee Barteaux because he tried to kill me.  The fact he was appeared to be stoned out of his mind did not reduce my terror or the impact of my injuries.  The threats he had made against the unborn child then growing in my womb removed all doubt on the matter.  He told me blandly he would have sex with the baby if it was a girl.  

At the time I might have heard the term 'psychopathic'. but I would not have known what it meant.  

As you read the time line and pages reached with links you will see the documents and the calloused disregard for the baby I would birth on 5 July1967.  

You might consider my chagrin when, years later, I realized the baby I loved and fiercely defended was, herself a psychopath.  See Morgan Pillsbury Gell

Some situations confront us leave no good options.  

I was 17 when Richard and I married.  The very idea of marrying him had become revolting to me.  He was the first person I went on a date with.  The first one to kiss me.  But I could not think of any way out of the dilemma, as he had raped me and I assumed I would be pregnant.  

So, I went along with his insistence we marry.  

This site tells the story.  At first, I was reluctant to tell everything, but recently realized that otherwise having married three very flawed men makes no sense.  

My fourth husband, Brock is very nice, thoughtful, and intelligent.  

My first three husbands - were hideous for varied reasons. We need not revisit Richard, this site provides the facts on him.  

Ron and I were very unsuited to each other.  When you have to write someone's papers for them in college and take there tests, it is clear the relationship will not work.  

Craig was definitely intelligent but this did not make up for his other attributes, being intent on having sex with my daughters would have been enough, if I had known. This, he carefully hid from me.

 Emotionally normal people are generally forgiving; knowing no one is perfect we try to be understanding.    

More about No. 2 & No. 3 at the links below.

Ronald Edward Kellett (Foster)  I married him to protect little Carolyn from her legal father, Richard Lee Barteaux.

Craig Franklin AKA Allan Craig Franklin   I thought our common interests would make for a good, solid marriage.  Wrong again, as he was a sexual deviant.  

More of these years of my life at How The NeoCons Stole Freedom

None of my later four children are psychopathic.  They have their quirks some times, but their emotions are real.  They all suffered from Morgan's despicable behavior when she stayed with us. When I describe this as despicable, I am being kind.     Unfortunately, my son Arthur died when he was 42.  I had been his caretaker from September, 1997, after the motorcycle accident that nearly caused his death, and the suicide attempt, caused by Craig, that followed.

Black-Foxe

 From a page only available on the WayBack Machine

A Brief History

Black-Foxe opened its doors in the Fall of 1928 when Charles E. Toberman, a prominent Hollywood developer and financier, was joined by Majors Earle Fox and Harry Black to found the school on the site that had formerly been occupied by Urban Military Academy. Foxe became its president and Black commandant of cadets. Both Black and Foxe had served with distinction in the First World War.  Major Harry Gaver, whose title was honorary, joined them as Headmaster. It was Harry Gaver that was the intellectual force behind the founding and the rise to prominence of Black-Foxe as a first-rate college preparatory school.

From it’s earliest years Black-Foxe attracted a number of the sons of Hollywood luminaries, due in part to the fact that Earle Foxe had been a silent movie actor who continued to take an occasional part in sound films. By the end of the thirties Harry Black had gone on to other interests.  Earle Foxe remained as president until 1960.

Although it was founded only a year before the beginning of the great depression, those who could afford to send their son’s to the school were minimally affected by that ongoing event. In the thirties both the football and polo teams enjoyed sterling reputations playing and, more often than not, defeating college and university freshman teams. Football players were highly recruited during that period. By the 1940s the polo team was history and the football team, sans scholarship athletes, had settled into playing in the private prep school league. From that time on it was the swimming team that took the laurels. Many future All-American swimmers swam for the BF ‘Mermen.’

 During World War II many former Black-Foxe cadets and faculty members served with distinction. Five gave their lives, including the son of Headmaster Harry H. Gaver.  Harry junior, who was aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor, was the first Black-Foxe alumnus to die in the war.

The 1950’s at Black-Foxe, as well as elsewhere in the country, were years of stability and, except for Korea and the ongoing cold war, years of optimism. However, in 1954 Black-Foxe suffered what was undoubtedly its greatest loss when the headmaster, the firm but gentle Major Harry Gaver, died of a heart attack at age sixty-eight. English teacher Caleb deCou put it best when he said “Black-Foxe was written in the hand of Major Gaver.”  In  1959 the school was sold by Charles Toberman to Raymond Rosendahl, father of Cadet Ray Rosendahl.

The turbulent sixties with their social protests and raging anti-war sentiment, especially by the young , did not bode well for a military school.  In the early 1960s the name was changed from Black-Foxe Military Institute to The Black-Foxe School. Earle Foxe, the founding President had resigned and finally, in the last year, Army ROTC gave way to Air Force ROTC, the Air Force apparently being more benign than the infantry in the eyes American society of the 1960s. In 1965 Rosendahl sold the school to a non-profit group which included parents of cadets then in attendance. This group for reasons known and unknown were unable to make a success of the non-profit venture. In 1968 the mortgage holder had no choice but to foreclose, and Black-Foxe was no more.

Today, the only remaining vestige of Black-Foxe is a house on the adjacent property that used to serve as the kindergarten during the school year and a dance studio during the summer months.  It was purchased in the early 1940s by Black-Foxe, and when the school folded, it was sold to a Mr. David Aguirre. He now uses it as his residence and it is also a Los Angeles historical landmark and modest museum of Black-Foxe memorabilia.

Pat O'Donnell, Class of 1949

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