Care for homeless links city nun, Florida family
"Mom, I’ll be gone for a while.”
Those few words were the last known words Stephen Beachboard wrote to his family.
"A while” turned into longer than perhaps he or his family ever dreamed.
Beachboard died alone under a bridge in downtown Oklahoma City on March 29, 2007 — more than 20 years after he left that note to his mother.
While his family in Florida wondered w...
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