(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday

This is my husband John with his mother, photographed in Iola Kansas in June of 1976 wen John became an Eagle Scout! John was 15 years old!

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday

A picture of my dad, sometime during his grade-school years!.Wasn't he a cutie? He just celebrated his 75th birthday last Sunday!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday

This is a photo of my husband's mother Lillian and his sister Julie holding babies. Lillian is holding her granddaughter, Donna, and Julie is holding her brother, Patrick. These two children were born on the same day in March of 1964!

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This is my brother and me with my dad at the Wade Park Rose Garden in Cleveland. It must have been taken about 1962 or 1963. We lived in Cleveland until sometime before I started kindergarten, which was in the fall of 1964. Rick and I didn't look very happy, did we?

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday

For this week's (Nearly) Wordless Wednesday, I'm selecting something that is covered with words. When my cousin Russell lent me the papers and photos that came from my grandparents' house after Pappap died in 1987 so that I could scan them, I was touched to find the following letter. It was the first I ever wrote. It was a class assignment, way back in second grade, I believe. And I think this proves that I inherited my packrat tendencies!

Wordless Wednesday

This was my grandfather's last driver's license. He passed away in 1987.

Until I saw his birthday typed out in the format shown here, I didn't see the significance of the date of what would have been his 100th birthday to those of us who lived thru that day.

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday

Men of the family, from a gathering in the early 60s. They were sitting on the glider on the front porch of my grandparents' house in Houston, PA.

All but Tom Jackson have passed away, their names link to their Find a Grave pages.











Front (l to r): Great Uncle Selwyn Fife, Great Uncle Raymond Fife, cousin Tom Jackson

Back (l to r): Uncle Eddie Champ, Uncle David Atkinson, and Pappap (Charles Atkinson).

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday: Happy birthday Rick!

Monday (Groundhogs' Day) was my brother, Rick's birthday. I'm not sure he'd want me to post his age for all to see, but I'll say that he's nearly 13 months younger than I am. Here are some pictures throughout his life (so far).

From left to right below: Rick as a baby; me and Rick in a photo taken in Ashland KY in 1960; Rick and me in our backyard in Painesville OH in the mid-60s; Rick with a catfish he caught in North Platte NE in 1971; Rick in the summer of 1979 behind our grandparents' house in Houston, PA.

And this is my most recent photo of him, with me and my mom after a meal at Outback in Mentor OH last August.

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday: Great Grandma Fife

This photograph is the best one I've ever seen of my great grandma, Martha (Skiles) Fife. I've wondered if other cousins might have better ones. You can see her information from my genealogy database here, and her Find a Grave entry here.

Wordless Wednesday #6

Another picture of me as a baby, although this photo is faded and you might not notice the baby on my Grandma's lap. I have no idea what my dad is doing to his mother in this picture. This was taken in my grandparents' living room.

The back of this photo is labeled:

Taken Jan 25, 1959
Cheryl Ann (sic) 20 days old
[and added in different different handwriting]
Grandma Atkinson
Jim Atkinson

Note: My middle name is spelled "Anne"

Wordless Wednesday #5

Below is a newspaper clipping found in the papers saved by my grandparents. The photo shows my grandfather "Charley" Atkinson and his sister Esther Atkinson among their classmates. I wonder how many of the other kids were relatives, I see quite a few surnames also found in my genealogy.

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Me and Pappap, Mar 13, 1960, on the front steps of their yard in Houston PA.

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I don't have a lot of family photos taken at Christmas-time. My aunt gave me this one a few years ago. That's me and my cousin Michael at our grandparents' house in Houston, PA. This had to be my first Christmas in 1959.

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Christmas in the 70s
My mother-in-law, Lillian and her 5 youngest children: John, Victor, Patrick, Jenny & Mary

Same people, Thanksgiving 2006
Victor, Mary, Lillian, John, Patrick, Jenny

Wordless Wednesday #1

Uncle Selwyn with my dad (early 1940s?)