Happy 23rd Birthday Anna

October 10th 2003 Anna Catherine was born. Wishing the loveliest granddaughter a happy 23rd birthday today. ❤️love, Froo

On her first birthday 28 August Anna in Pittsburgh

Our First First Cousin is XC

Happy Birthday to John B. Van Sickle.

Our mother Marian and his father John R. were siblings.

Of course I knit him a hat!

Emeritus Faculty in Classics and Author of Virgil’s Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse

Why the years are in Roman Numerals!

Happy Birthday to my Sister

Our mother holding baby Mary
Mary with nephew Matthew (May 2026)

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.

Twenty-one on the 21st of August

Grandson Michael celebrates his Golden Birthday.

May your birthday be the start of a happy new year!

Love, Froo

My most recent photo of Michael August 1st

Happy Birthday Lala

Laura is celebrating her birthday Friday August 7th.

May your birthday be the start of a happy new year❤️ love, Ma

With her family on Roy’s 4th birthday August 1 2026
1984 First Birthday in Grafenwoehr Germany

Four is going to be Fabulous and Fun

August 1st Roy is turning four Happy Birthday Roy

His mom Laura took his photo trying on his custom birthday shirt.

Charlie is a wonderful big brother to Roy

Birthday Flowers

24 hours later the lily opened
36 hours

So close, colorful and loud!

Thanks for a happy Fourth of July celebration Debbie and Sy.

Holding your mom’s special happy birthday plate and then I had a slice of cake on it. Thank you. Photo by Deb’s dear friend Michelle
Lisa and her medley of roasted vegetables
What a party.

74 on 7/4

Click to see this card shoot fireworks 28 second video with sound and lights

Thanks Gloria & Jeff for this bday card that’s alive
From Laura at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Rear view
My knitting friend GS made the beaded ornament. The braided wreath I stitched years ago but it’s missing the bow to cover the connecting seam.
Photo by Shanti. I’m wearing a friend’s (GB)
knitted shawl