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Marla, Ryan and Blackie

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 Week 2 of  "52 Ancestors"     2025 This week's subject is "Favorite Photo" The photo I chose has been displayed on the shelf between the kitchen and dining area for a long time.  I think that when I ran across it one day when looking through old photos, I realized I really liked it and decided to put it in a small frame.    Marla:  The photo must have been taken in the morning because Marla is in her pink bathrobe that was made long before by her Grandmother Ghere.  Marla loved that bathrobe so much, that Grandma Ghere added a ruffle out of the same fabric when it got way too short.  She also added on to the sleeves.  The bathrobe was such a favorite that I still have it hanging in my closet. Ryan:  Ryan and Marla are standing close together, Marla is leaning her head on Ryan.  The photo shows their close relationship. Blackie: For a time, Blackie was a pet.  On a Field Ecology camping field trip, a group of stu...
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In the Beginning

  I was fortunate to live in the same town as my maternal grandparents from the time I was born.  I spent many happy times at their home.  My grandmother, Eva Lena, gave me a scrapbook that she had assembled when she was quite young.  I enjoyed looking at the yellowed pages containing things such as colorful pictures of flowers cut from magazines or seed catalogues.  Other items were Sunday School leaflets.  I think this scrapbook started my interest in asking my grandmother about her life when I was older.  I should have spent much more time with her than I did, and should have done it when she was younger and her memory was better. Eva was asked to contribute family history information to a history compiled by Stephen Baird Peter which she was pleased to do.  Stephen, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was a senior in high school at the time he compiled his family's history which he began work on in 1961 and published it that same year.  By the 1...
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