When single mum Michelle Pittman and her 9-year-old son Dylan saw an intriguing sign for a national park, just a few streets away from their home in the NSW Hunter Valley, it almost seemed like fate.

Born in Reading, he was a son of Clara Hermansader, Reading, and the late Horace G. Pittman Sr. He is also survived by four children: Michelle (Pittman) Jesmer and Melinda Pittman, both in Texas ...