Smith Siblings - Dad’s - at the Homeplace

 

Smith Siblings - Dad’s - at the Homeplace

Yesterday I wrote about the Homeplace - my Dad’s childhood farm and family in the 1920s. Let’s bring them forward to Sept, 1955, for a family gathering, Thanksgiving, I think, at the Homeplace, now occupied by oldest brother, Toots, and his wife Mary.

From the left, Irene, Toots, Betty, Pete, Max, and LVene

 

Here it gets a little more complicated…
Back Row, from left: Toots, Orrin Hilgenberg (Max), Warren Pierce (Betty), Verle Thomas (LVene), Pete.
Middle Row, from left: 2 cousins??, LVene, Eileen (Mom)
Front Row, from left: Max, Mary, Irene, Betty

Missing a few kids, but here we were:
Back Row, from left: David Thomas, Bill Smith, Becky Pierce, Gary Hilgenberg holding her.
Middle Row, from left, John Thomas, Tom (T.K.) Smith
Seated, from left: Dan Smith, Margaret Smith, Jim Smith

This fits in with the stories of my ‘childhood,’ too, of course. Here I would have recently had my 16th birthday, early in Junior Year of High School. Gary was a year older, therefore a Senior. David (Dave) was two years younger, therefore a Freshman. We are missing Gary’s sister, Judy (later Judi), a Sophomore. Also, my brother Barry would have been 2, is not in the picture. We all went to Coon Rapids to school at this time.

As I recall, this group got together on holidays for a few years, then didn’t. Still, all family, all the time.


Families are Forever! ;-)