birthday – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Seven is Super

Charlie is seven today! And it’s halfway to Christmas. Oh my! Happy 7th Birthday Charlie!

It’s exciting to be here in person to celebrate together this year.

A few friends of his friends will come for cupcakes after lunch.

Seemed like his UNO birthday was just yesterday

June 25, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday, celebration, childhood, Columbus OH, family, grandson, photography, postaday 12 Comments

Happy Flag Day Birthday David

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The history of Flag Day on the History Channel

Ruth from Jack( blog follower and good friend)

Father of Flag Day” honors have been given to William T. Kerr, who was credited with founding the American Flag Day Association in 1888 while still a schoolboy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday, brother, celebration, flag, Flag Day, history, history channel, photography, postaday 5 Comments

They Say It’s Your Birthday

Happy Birthday Dear Mark, May your birthday be the start of a happy new year. Love, Ma

May 25, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bicentennial baby, birthday, childhood, family, photography, postaday, son 13 Comments

Fifteen Years Old

As the seasons change from Winter to Spring, you celebrate your fifteenth birthday.

That happened fast! Glad I’m here to bake you a cake. Love to your on your birthday, Jack. Love, Froo

March 20, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Family, PhotographyTags: birthday, childhood, Columbus OH, fifteen, grandson, Jack, photography, postaday, seasons, teenager 10 Comments

Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks, my paternal grandmother, was born 130 years ago. She went by the name Alta. When my father was born they lived in Farmersville, Illinois. One summer my brother and I stayed with our grandparents and she taught me to knit. I was four years old.

This is just from the time she resided in a Nursing Care Center in Taylorville, Illinois. My grandmother kept a list of the afghans and shawls she knit for others during this period of her life.
Written inside the cover of her copy of The Book of Common Prayer.

Heritage from a post. May 2017. Ben H at WordPress says “This week, share a photo of something that says “heritage” to you. It can be from your own family or culture — a library, a work of public art, a place of worship, an object passed down to you from previous generations.”

I held the quilt to the window so the light could show how beautifully it is pieced and stitched.

She knit the blue Afghan and handstitched the quilt. She could tat and crochet, too. Made egg noodles and hung to dry on a broom stick.

My father **Roy J. Hendricks** (b. 1912) is the boy standing on the left. Uncle **Alan Ray Hendricks**(b.1916) is the baby on my grandmother’s lap. My grandfather is standing, **Floyd Merle Hendricks**.

Mary Alta on the left , Sarah and Will Kerr in Illinois

Here’s another post for Throwback Thursday

My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Kerr, born February 7, 1892 and her brother and sister. I need to do more research, dig around in a box, to get info on her siblings details. I know she called her sister “Sis”.

This is the grandmother who taught me to knit when I was little. No date on the photo. She looks to be 5 or 6? Maybe 1900-1901?

Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks passed March 13,1979 and is buried in Morrisonville, Illinois.