Pictures from Ray's Side of the Family

This group of photos has pictures of some of Ray's uncles - on both sides of his family. With his paternal grandmother are two of his uncles - the one on the left I believe is his uncle Wilbur (Cotton) and on the right is Art.

This fellow may be Charlie, an uncle I never met. He was a farmer in northern Illinois and I don't think he kept in touch with the rest of the family that all lived in the Chillicothe area.That was back in the days when couples married, settled down in their home towns, had families who also settled down close to their families. An entirely different world as compared to now.

This young fellow was a brother of Ray's mother. He is Sammy and he also was a farmer and lived just west of Chillicothe.

And here is another brother of Clemie's - Everett. Quite a picture of him with his curly hair and pretty baby dress. I think I have already posted a picture of Ray in one of his baby dresses. That was very common years ago. (Click to enlarge)

Postcard Friendship Friday

In pictures that were in my husband's mom's things, there are a lot of ones similar to these two. I cannot pick out anyone in any of the pictures and they are all on the old postcard backs sans writing. This one does have a flag on it so thought that would be appropriate for the upcoming flag day. And a Happy Birthday goes out to Beth on her birthday - how sweet that she would think people flew the flag for her day. Why would a little girl not think that?

There are other pictures with these vehicles featured - and I have no idea what they are. Some of the photos look like they could be army camps but I am wondering if this could have anything to do with the CCC which I vaguely remember hearing about. I think it put men to work after the depression building roads, etc., all over the country where they lived in camps. Anyone have any ideas? I will post more of the photos at a later date.

From the Pearces' Pictures But Who Are They

I have used almost all of the photographs that I have of Dan and Maggie Pearce's family and there were many of them. There are still some that I don't know if I have posted or not, but this one I am sure has never been in either blog. However, I don't know who these smiling people are. The woman on the right could be Nelle, but I cannot be positive of that. The one that is interesting to me is the fellow on the right with the jacket over his shoulder. I am seeing a U on his shirt - however, I doubt whether folks wore shirts with words on them way back when. His hat is set at a jaunty angle, also. There they all are standing in a field of weeds. Some of the faces may have been in other photos - I think I will check back and see if any of these young folks appear in any of them. (Click to enlarge)

This Has to be Some Kind of Cool

First of all, I apologize for the crack in the photo - I suppose there is a way to put it into my Microsoft program and blend it in and I will try and do that. In looking through the pictures, I came across this one of Bill, my son, and Bud, my brother. This was probably taken in the late 60's or so. I am sure Bill was feeling pretty darned wonderful just sitting at the wheel of that car. I am ashamed to say I don't know what the car is and hope Bud or Bill will clue me in. I think I might know but I'm not sure. It's a honey, though! Little brother is looking pretty darned cool, too, and I'm sure Bill was feeling that way about his uncle! (Click to enlarge)

Popeye the Sailor

From 1935, this old book of Popeye comic strips was in with things that Ray's mom had. In looking at the cover, I see that Popeye has a dress on. Guess I should leaf through the book and see why he is wearing a frock. He is still a tough guy!! Looks as if Ray embellished this page with some of his artistic endeavors. I thought at first that Bill, our son, may have done it, but we didn't have this when Bill was a little guy. He really did a lot of drawing and actually is very talented. When he was in grade school, he drew so many funny guys with warts and cigarettes, etc., and also great automobiles. In his college years, he was drawing cartoons featuring Chuck Roast. Although his dad didn't advance in his artwork much, Bill must have inherited the urge to embellish books and draw funny guys and cars from his dad. So nice to run across something like this little look into the past. (Click to enlarge)

Postcard Friendship Friday

In September of 1949, Ray and I were married in Chillicothe, Illinois. That evening, lots of our family took us to the Santa Fe depot and saw us off for our honeymoon in Chicago. My Aunt Leah showered us with lots of rice so there I am sure all the passengers on the car we boarded knew we were newlyweds. We stayed at the Stevens Hotel which is now Conrad Hilton I think. They had an ice show in the Boulevard Room at the hotel and we went to see that one night. I still have the drink stirrers (is that a word?) which were blue ski poles with ice skates on the top. Here is the postcard showing the ice show and below is the back of the card.

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Class of 1946

A little over 64 years ago, I graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in a class of 45 - 30 girls and 15 fellows, terrible odds for the girls. Our class has had reunions every five years in connection with the alumni association yearly banquet which is now held in June. Next year it will be our 65th. It is approximately an 8 hour drive back to Chilli and on my 60th, Sherry drove me over and went with me to everything. That was a lot of fun. So, will have to see how things are in 2011.

Here I am in my cap and gown with my dad. Dad is in his summer attire - the work pants and the undershirt he always wore. Looks like he took a break from some garden work. It certainly has been a long, long sime since these pictures were taken! (Click to enlarge)