Sunday, 10 September 2006

• "Memories in the photograph / Of the last generation"

  While I was in Ohio, I spent a lot of time with my Nanaw (who celebrated her 73rd birthday while I was there!).  She brought out a lockbox full of cool photographs, some of which she had even forgotten about.  I scanned as many as I had time to scan, and will scan more the next time I'm in town.  Here are a few of my favorites:

  

  L-R:  My Great-Aunt Dorothy Mae Mefford, my Great-Grandma Elizabeth Levoni Mefford, and my Grandma Wanda Lee Mefford.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  L-R:  My Great-Great-Aunt Viola Magnolia Morrison, my Great-Grandpa Carl Thomas Mefford, my Great-Uncle Carl Junior Mefford, and my Grandma Wanda Lee Mefford.  My grandma was 18 in this photo.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  L-R:  My Great-Grandma Elizabeth Levoni Mefford, and my Grandma Wanda Lee Mefford.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  L-R:  My Grandpa Harry Virgil Dryden with other members of the Honor Guard:  Glen, Mac, and Hugh.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  My Grandpa Harry Virgil Dryden and Grandma Wanda Lee Dryden.  They had been married for seven months, and Grandma was four months along with their first child (my Uncle Wayne).  Grandpa was home on leave for a couple of weeks.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  I don't really know which of these soldiers is which, except that the soldier on the far right in the back row is my grandpa, Cpl. Harry Virgil Dryden.  The other soldiers include:  Cpl. Harris, Pfc. Beard, Pfc. Moore, Pfc. Fenell, and Pfc. Groves.

  This was probably taken during a field training exercise while he was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX (1954-55?).

  
  
  
  
  

  

  L-R:  My Uncle Virgil Wayne Dryden, my Aunt Susan Ann Dryden, and my Mom Kathy Lee Dryden.  My mom was about 4 years old in this photo.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  My Mom, Kathy Lee Dryden.  What a cutie in her lil do-rag, huh?

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