Durand IL – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Deep Cleaning Closet Yield

Found this newspaper page from June 17,1966 today. Our eighth grade class.

My Grandmother’s High School Class 1904 picture, too.

I’m tackling a closet which had a few random treasures in the miscellaneous.

What sensible person holds onto this stuff?

Happy Birthday to my Dear Longtime Friend with much love. I hope you’re reading the blog today.

(Seriously longtime. We were in Mrs. Stewart’s class when news broke of JFK’s assassination. I remember Miss McCarthy crying in the hall).

But I figure you prefer anonymity so you know who you are.

“We were so much older then, we’re younger than that now”

Happy Birthday to my Cherished Friend

My maternal grandmother, Charlotte Rowley- bottom right

And in my mother’s handwriting -the names of the 1904 Durand High School class, Durand Illinois. Mr. Greenough didn’t get a first name?

December 8, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1904, 1966, Alta Crowder, archive, birthday, Charlotte Rowley, Class of 1966, class photos, Dewitt Barningham, Durand IL, Edna Winchester, Eighth grade, Ethel Holverson, family, Fay Edmundson, friendship, genealogy, grandmother, Greenough, happy birthday, Mabel Anderson, Morris Plains Elementary School, Morris Plains NJ, photography, postaday, school pictures 15 Comments

I look at my grandmother’s photo and wonder what she’s reading

On Sunday, my family drive through Durand IL (pop. 1500). It’s the place my family drive me every summer of childhood.

My son took a photo of his four kids in front of my grandparents house. He asked for an old photo of the house to compare. I rediscovered this picture of my maternal grandmother.

I wonder what she’s reading.

Grandmother whose China went to Laura post

Then I went and googled her and a her name comes up. The people I want to call and ask, are passed.

Charlotte Baker Rowley 1888-1980

Born Jun 1888 in Winnebago, Illinois, USAmap

Daughter of Eugene Baker Rowley and Mary S Smith

Sister of Clair S Rowley, May Rowley, Edna Rowley and Cecile Rowley

Wife of Judd DeWitt Vansickle — married 16 Nov 1908 in Winnebago, Illinois, USAmap

[children unknown]

Died Jun 1980 in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States of Americamap. But her children are known. My mother was Marian.And no mention of Charlotte’s middle name Elizabeth.

I must ask my older cousin, John. Maybe he’ll know

I’ll list their children

John Rowley Van Sickle b 1910

Marian Van Sickle b 1912

Robert Eugene b 1914

August 25, 2016August 25, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: book, Durand IL, family, grandmother, postaday, reading, vintage 17 Comments

100 Years Ago Today

Marian Van Sickle Hendricks

Born Durand Illinois

September 3, 1912

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The one room school house photo with my mother as the teacher (in the back row left) was photographed September 13, 1930.

Written on the back of the photo – Barbara Sweet, Pearl Wallace, Jesse Shultz, Ellis Greene, Truman Sweet.

Front row, l to r, Glenn Greene, Laurence Judd, Edward Bratt, Truman Clark, Phyllis Sweet, Mildred Judd.

In the photos with her are her brothers John Rowley Van Sickle (1910) and Robert Eugene Van Sickle (1914) Her parents Judd Dewitt Van Sickle and Charlotte Rowley Van Sickle were married in 1908.

The doll, Maybelle is in my living room.

She married Roy Joseph Hendricks August 28, 1939.

I am the baby in the photograph with the 1952 Dodge Wayfarer and my sister Mary and brother David.

My mother passed September 7, 2000.

September 3, 2012 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 100 years ago, birthday, Dodge Wayfarer 1952, Durand IL, family, genealogy, history, mother, one room school, photography, postaday, slideshow, van sickle, vintage 17 Comments

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