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Log In. James Lee Burke's Post. James Lee Burke Verified account. They are not meant as a notification of her passing; they are about a life that has left a large mark on a large number of people. Pamala was one of the kindest and bravest people I ever knew. There was no limit on her generosity and her love of animals and people.

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I remember once in San Francisco when she took every cent she had in her purse and gave it to a homeless man digging food out of a garbage can. As a little girl she fought bullies on the schoolground in defense of smaller children. Nor would she accept bad conduct on a personal level. At age ten, in Little Yankee Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, she asked a famous Yankee pitcher who had chewing tobacco for brains to autograph her baseball.

She was born August 5, , in Lafayette, Louisiana. I was a newspaper reporter who made little money. I took a job in the War On Poverty and we moved to a hollow in the Cumberland Mountains where children lived in dirt-floor cabins and wore clothes made from Purina feed sacks and went barefoot in the snow. I think it was here that Pamala acquired her empathy for the poor and the downtrodden.

She graduated with honors from Wichita State University, and had many jobs, almost all of them associated with problem solving and public relations. She had abilities that seemed preternatural.