Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Mom and Dad's 77th Wedding Anniversary

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday

Mom and Dad's 77th Wedding Anniversary

This photo was taken on Mom and Dad's 25th Wedding Anniversary. 

Yesterday was the 77th Anniversary of their Wedding, St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1938.

Families are Forever! ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Pete and Eileen's 25th Wedding Anniversary

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday

Pete and Eileen's 25th Wedding Anniversary

March 17, 1963

My parents' 25th Wedding Anniversary

Photo by Bill's [Keister] Studio - Coon Rapids, Iowa

Taken at the their farm home NE of Coon Rapids

A couple of weeks late in posting this... but, still very worthy!  ;-)

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Maternal Grandparents 40th Anniversary

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday

Maternal Grandparents 40th Anniversary

August 1954 photos of Paul and Dorothy (Sorensen) Kinnick 40 Wedding Anniversary

Above with three children and their spouses.

Below, with some of their siblings and spouses.

Top photo: left to right, Edward (Buzzy) and Colleen (Davis) Kinnick (their daughter Cindy), Pete and Eileen (Kinnick) Smith, Dorothy and Paul Kinnick, Leo and Ida Marie (Bell) Kinnick.

Lower photo: left to right, Wilson and Lucile (Kinnick) Herron, Rasmus and Louise (Sorensen) Neilsen, Dorothy and Paul Kinnick, Edna (Hull) Kinnick [widow of Robert], Delbert and Lillian (Kinnick) Ford.

Reception held at farm home of Pete and Eileen Smith, northeast of Coon Rapids, Iowa.

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wordless (Nearly) Wednesday - Orrin and Maxine (Smith) Hilgenberg

Wordless (Nearly) Wednesday

Orrin and Maxine (Smith) Hilgenberg

Dad's sister, Max, and Orrin were married 16 Dec 1936.

(See Eileen's diary next Tuesday, as well)

This photo is from their 50th Wedding Annversary in 1986.

As I am writing this, they live in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and are approaching their 75th!

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Mappy Monday - Revisit 1935 Map

Mappy Monday

Revisit 1935 Map

Last Monday, I posted a full view of the 1935 Union Township, Carroll County, Iowa Plat Map with notations of my family activities.

This week, look through some image files, I came across this image of a portion of the map, including the town of Coon Rapids, Iowa, with typed and written notations by my Uncle, Leo Kinnick, probably made in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Amazing. He notes the land, as I did, where he and his sister, Eileen, had lived, in Section 21. He also notes where his wife, Ida Marie Bell, lived, and where she rode a horse to the school where she taught. Great details!! {Click to enlarge the image}

Leo and Ida recently celebrated their 74th Wedding Anniversary!  ;-)

[On 50th Anniversary, as I recall]

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Smile for the Camera - Arrion

The Smile for the Camera, 19th Edition Blog Carnival, asks us to use the word prompt "Gift" - and we are encouraged to be creative.

Normally I would be likely to choose a photo of one of my two grandchildren for such a post.

This time, however, I am honoring their mother, my youngest daughter, Arrion. We went a full generation without grandchildren until she and Ben, her husband, gave us our two precious ones to carry on our family line. As a youngster in dance and ballet, her teacher always said her smile had "sparkle." That sparkle is still there. Here is a very casual pose, this summer when they visited us for our 50th anniversary celebration. Thank you for your "gift" Arrion!



Family is Forever! ;-)

Treasure Chest Thursday - Straw Stool

This is the story of a little stool, with a straw weave top. My younger brother showed up with it at our house a month or so before our 50th Wedding Anniversary; he said I should have it. My two year old picture was taken with me sitting on it. Here is both a current photo and the ancient one.



Families are Forever! ;-)