September 3, 1912

The day Marian Van Sickle was born in Durand, Illinois.

My eldest son Mark told me on his last visit home that we’re all just a generation or two away from being forgotten. I’ve been thinking about that fact and wanted to remember my Mother on the anniversary of her birth.

John, Robert and Marian
I still have her doll Maybelle

The teacher in a one room school house
August 28, 1939
1942
1974
1984

Our mother had her 88th birthday in a Rockford Illinois hospital and passed away 6 days later on September 9, 2000.

Throwback Thursday

114 years ago today, my dad was born

My Father was Born in 1912

Throwback Thursday

Roy Joseph Hendricks born February 26, 1912

108 years ago today

Born in Durand, Illinois on September 3rd, 1912. It’s the anniversary of my mother’s birth. One hundred eight years ago. Next week marks  twenty years since she passed. The early years, from my grandmother’s album.

Marian Van Sickle Hendricks