Author Description

Pamela Rae Frantz Ashby was born, grew up, and lived most of her adult life in Oakland, Maryland where she was employed as a reporter at THE REPUBLICAN newspaper for nearly 10 years. From her days at Southern High School into her adulthood, she was active in numerous community, school, and church activities. She also managed a busy family life, involving herself fully in the lives of her husband, Joe, and their three children, Jamie, Annie, and Katy. Dreamers have Dirty Elbows is a collection of essays written for the newspaper through the column she created, "Our Turn" and then later through "The Mind Wanders" Pam's dream was to publish these essays and she had alsready begun compiling them when she was killed, at age 42 in a tragic car accidnet that also took the life of her brother, Paul Frantz, on January 11, 1994. She was the daughter of James E. Frantz, McHenry, and the late Elva J. Frantz.