I have been organizing old family photos, taking them from the \’magic stick\’ page albums and putting them into boxes. I plan to find some envelopes to protect individual photos. It is a real trip down memory lane. Plus I have photos from my husband\’s family as well. I upload pics to ancestry.com to preserve them. Here are some of my favorite family photos.
Barbara Reed Ramer |
I was still a teenager when my Grandfather Ramer gave me this daguerreotype photograph. He was unsure if it was his mother or his grandmother, but I know from the dress style, and by comparing photo images, that it was his grandmother Barbara Reed Ramer.
They lived in Milroy, PA where Joseph ran a lumber mill.
Evelyn and Lynne\’s oldest child was my mother, Joyce. Mom was the Jiggerbug Queen of the \’Projects\’, temporary war time housing for factory workers. Gramps worked as an engineer in an airplane factory during WWII.
Mom saw my dad on the bus and tried every way to get his attention. Well, she did and they married and a few years later I came along and then my brother.
Me at three years old |
I grew up and married. Here is a photo of my mother-in-law when she was a teenager. She loved church camp at Gull Lake, MI and the summer this photo was taken she said she was \’dark as an Indian\’ and was asked by a Native American boy she met if she was an Indian.
Gary\’s father lost his father at age 13. His mother Loretta Valdora was a member of the UAW and supported the famous GM sit-down strike by bringing food to the striking workers.
Val/Etta/Girl (she went by many names over her life!) spent a winter at Vermillion Point, MI on Lake Superior taking care of the life saving station children.
Gary took this photo at Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia. It is such a beautiful photo because of the setting.