From Mom’s Diary… 1947 - August 18 - At the Coon Rapids Pool

From Mom’s Diary… 1947

August 18 - At the Coon Rapids Pool

Karen, Jim, Kay, Kathleen, Bill, Wilson

On August 3rd, Leo’s left off Karen and Kathleen to stay a few weeks while they traveled to Wyoming to see Ira and Delta Kinnick… several reference to two girls and two boys in the house…

Monday, August 18:

Did a big washing. Went in swimming in P.M. Kay, Patty, Wilson went too. At night came home & chored & ate & went to “Ramrod” Veronica Lake, Gary Cooper. Ate at ice cr. parlor & came home.

My comments:

The photo likely from this day, but certainly from the time. Leo’s arrived back the next day at 6:30.


Families are Forever! ;-)

From Mom’s Diary… 1943 - January 14 at Brannan’s

From Mom’s Diary… 1943 - January 14 at Brannan’s

From left: Bob Bolger, Bill Smith, Roger Brannan, Barbara Brannan, Carolyn Bolger, Nancy Bolger (in front)

On July 1, 1942, I celebrated my 3rd birthday. This is just past six months later. This is the first photo that I am aware of with Nancy and I in the same photo.

Photo taken at club, at Margaret Brannan’s.

Thursday, January 14:

Thawing went we got up. Did up work. Gave Billy a bath before dinner. Ate, I took a bath & we went to club at Margaret Brannan’s. Had a nice time. Stopped at LVene’s on way home. Home at 6:15. Ate, Cleaned up the house. Read and went to bed.

Bonus Photo: Dated January 1943:

 Billy and Karen Kinnick, on trikes, in Lohrville

My comments:

A few days after this, the temperature is 15 below zero for a few days. This was Iowa, after all…

Additional late January notes:

Jack Bowman was preparing to join the Navy.
Mom notes getting 'new ration books' on a shopping trip in town.


Families are Forever! ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Thanksgivings past (1941, 2003)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday

Thanksgivings past

1941 - 2003

Happy Thanksgiving 2013!

What fun! I put "Thanksgiving" in my image finder and these two came up!

[Titled: Thanksgiving - 1941 - kids]

 This is Lohrville, Iowa - 1941 - Uncle Leo Kinnick's house. Especially appropriate, because cousin Dennis Ford (upper left; on the stump, lower left) will celebrate his 75th Birthday on Sunday, December 1, 2013. That is me, Bill, upper right, in front of that neat car!! I'm also in the lower left, as well... the cute kid, of course! Lower right is cousin Karen Kinnick, on the right, and her neighbor, on the left.

[Titled: Thanksgiving - 2003 in Branson]

From the left: Larry Johnson, Annette Lamb, Bill Smith, Nancy Smith, Ben Rathsack, and Arrion Rathsack, using automatic setting on Annette's Camera, I think, at the time... technology constantly challenges...  ;-)

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago This Week - October 17, 1938

75 Years Ago This Week - October 17, 1938

 

75 Years Ago This Week began March 1, 1938 - my mother and father were preparing to get married later in the month. I'm continuing this meme, from time to time, as issues warrant.



Selected diary excerpts from Eileen's diary, from this week, 75 years ago:

This is a "Catch Up" article that appeared in the paper related to my earlier post - when the same photo was used.

It was in the Enterprise on October 17, 75 Years Ago column, dated September 30, 1938:

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kinnick are the parents of an eight pound daughter, Karen Kay, born Monday morning at their home near Bradgate. Mrs. Kinnick is the former Ida Marie Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bell. The baby’s paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kinnick. Mr. and Mrs. Kinnick moved to their present home near Bradgate the last of
January this year. This is their first child.

My comment:
The one little reminder/surprise here is that they were living in Bradgate, when Karen was born. I'm sure I knew that, but it certainly was not a fact I had in my mind, for my first cousin. Leo was working in a dairy there, as I recall. Bradgate was on the west edge of Humbolt County, three counties to the north and one county east of Coon Rapids.


Families are forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago This Week - September 27, 1938

75 Years Ago This Week - September 27, 1938

Bill and Karen, at Paul Kinnick front yard in Coon Rapids

75 Years Ago This Week began March 1, 1938 - my mother and father were preparing to get married later in the month. I'm continuing this meme, from time to time, as issues warrant.


Selected diary excerpts from Eileen's diary, from this week, 75 years ago:

Saturday, Sept. 24:

… Took Pop over to Pilot Mound & back. Drove Polly's car. Polly went along but I did all the driving. Ate dinner at 2:00 at Schoppes in Jefferson. ...

Monday, Sept. 26:

… Karen Kay born at 5:00 a.m. Folks there when it happened. …

Tuesday, Sept. 27:

… Down to the fair awhile. Got season tickets $1.00. …

My comments: Wish she had said who they visited in Pilot Mound, over in NW Boone County. Assume it was Soderstrom cousins… his ('Pop' was my Dad's father, William Smith, of course) maternal grandfather had died there in 1901… I would not have expected him to still be in touch with family there; but, of course, I was wrong. ;-) A new family history research questions to work on...  ;-)

Karen Kay Kinnick was born 9 months before I was (on July 1, 1939); she is daughter of Mom's older brother, Leo Kinnick, and his wife, Ida Marie. Karen is my first cousin, of course.

Was your county fair 'season ticket' $1.00 this year?? What fun!


Families are forever!  ;-)

Treasure Chest Thursday - Thanksgiving Day 1941

Treasure Chest Thursday

Thanksgiving Day 1941

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!

Cousins!

Upper left, cousin Dennis Ford, six months older

Upper right, Bill Smith, 2 years, 5 months - love that car!

Lower left, Dennis and Billie!

Lower right, cousin Karen Kinnick in white; neighbor girl

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Bill and Karen 1940

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday

Bill and Karen 1940

Don't think I've shared this one before. It is 1940, in front of Grandpa and Grandma Kinnick's house on Main Street, in Coon Rapids, Iowa. Their house is the the left of the photo. Background shows their neighbors' houses down the street. I'm on the left, my first cousin, Karen Kinnick, is on the right. Classic photo... not much more to say.

Families are Forever!  ;-)