Durand Illinois – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Eighty Years Ago

This morning, when I heard today’s date, I realized it was on this day, eighty years ago, that my parents married. (Well I had a bit of help as my friend counted the decades by tens.)Although they passed away in 2000 and 2002 I was thinking about their wedding day all those years ago.

Durand Illinois. August 28, 1939. Not sure who took this home movie but here are a few shots from the screen. Roy Joseph Hendricks and Marian Van Sickle and family members in photos below.

Uncle Harold is the young man on left

Uncles John and Robert Van Sickle

Uncle Alan Hendricks

My Maternal Grandfather Judd VanSickle

Paternal Grandfather Floyd Hendricks

August 28, 2019August 29, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Photography, WeddingTags: 1939, anniversary, archives, Durand Illinois, Eighty years, grandparents, home movie, married, parents, photography, postaday, vintage, wedding 19 Comments

From Grandmother’s Album -July 2, 1916

From my grandmother Charlotte’s photo album. My mother, Marian, is the little girl standing in front of her Aunt Edna and Aunt Mae. Younger brother Robert is seated on the left. Their father, my grandfather, Judd, is the man smiling in the back on the left. My mother’s grandfather peeking between the women’s faces. Perhaps my cousins will be able to identify more relatives.

Durand Illinois July 2, 1916.

May 30, 2019 by Ruth Categories: vintageTags: 1916, archives, Durand Illinois, family, family album, family tree, grandmother, photography, postaday, Relatives 8 Comments

Throwback Thursday September 1916

**Marian Van Sickle** **Robert E. Van Sickle** **John R. Van Sickle**. My mother with the parasol and her brothers. Unfortunately, I don’t know who the twins are.

Durand, Illinois September 1, 1916

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, From the ArchivesTags: 1916, antique, archives, childhood, Durand IL, Durand Illinois, family, family photo, film, memories, mother, Parasol, photo album, photography, Relatives, Throwback Thursday, uncles, van sickle, VanSickle, vintage 14 Comments

Reflections at the end of Mother’s Day

How a family grows-

My grandmother and grandfather and my mother held by her grandfather on the right

with my mother’s grandmother and great-grandmother seated- Durand Illinois- my mother born in 1912

Marian Van Sickle in the middle with her brothers on either side John(l) and Robert(r) with parents Judd and Charlotte Van Sickle

My brother David and sister Mary and me in our mother’s arms Montclair NJ 1952

Me in Germany 1983 with Laura (’83) Mark (’76) and Matthew(’80)

On the left, Laura (and James) expecting first baby and Mark (back right) with his family- Erika, Anna, Michael, John Patrick (Jack) and Maura and my sister in the middle back and Erika with her mother and father and aunts and cousins and Henry in the front.

May 11, 2015 by Ruth Categories: Family, PhotographyTags: ancestors, Durand Illinois, family, generations, Germany, grandmother, history, Mother's Day, photography, postaday 14 Comments

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Eighty Years Ago

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