Throwback Thursday. From my grandmother’s album. Durand, Illinois.
Looks like a picnic c. 1925
Tag: Durand Illinois
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.
Our mother had her 88th birthday in a Rockford Illinois hospital and passed away 6 days later on September 9, 2000.
Four Generations
On my mother’s side.
I realized I posted this photograph five years ago. But they were still looking at me in my living room today
Melburn Clark Potter (1906-1940), my mother’s grandmother Mary Smith Rowley (1857-1917) in the middle and my mother’s Great Grandmother Charlotte Ann Clark Smith (1834-1926)
My Great Aunt Cecile 1897-1957
Cecile Rowley Caven
Judd Dewitt Van Sickle
My maternal grandfather Judd Dewitt Van Sickle Durand, Illinois
Born Sept 4,1887 Died-August 20, 1975
Winter 1918 Durand Illinois
Uncle Robert (b 1914) in front
Uncle John (b 1910) on the right
I may have posted this photo of my mother and her brothers previously but I love my mom’s and brothers’ hats so I’m reposting on Throwback Thursday today.
Throwback Thursday c.1922
Her brother Robert in cap to her right with their mother Charlotte behind him and brother John between in the back row and their father Judd to her left, just behind her and my Great Grandfather second from left
Uncle Edgar and Aunt Edna on the far right
Spring 1918
From my Grandmother’s album. Durand Illinois. My mother Marian with her brothers Robert (4) and John (8). Her 6th birthday would be in the coming September.
My Mother at Four-1916
1916 Durand Illinois
Ancestors’ Picnic Throwback Thursday
My maternal grandmother Charlotte on the far right My mother Marian w glasses third from right My Great Aunt Edna head turned looking at the camera My mothers brother Robert in the straw hat with dark band. And I think that is my mother’s brother John in the striped tie on the left.