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Dee Burris Blakley ([personal profile] dee_burris) wrote2012-08-27 01:17 pm

Treasure Chest Thursday: Photos

Yes, I know it's not Thursday, but I am planning ahead...so go with it, please...

I went to my dad's house last week, and took my aunt (his "big" sister) along for the ride.

Along the way, I asked her how she met her husband, and got a new little tidbit of information for the family archives.

Went graving at St. Joe Cemetery, which I refer to as the Burris burying ground. Found Aunt Margaret Jane Burris Moore's stone and photographed it.

After lunch at Dad's, we wandered downstairs and I spied a couple of photos I didn't have in our electronic archives.

A photo of my step-mom's dad in 1956 with his dog, Lonesome.
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Paul Pettit, with Lonesome


There was one of Aunt Emma, and her husband, Tom Crites, taken about 1935. They don't look 50 years old to me.
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Dora Emma Burris and Walter Thomas "Tommy" Crites


I asked my step-mom to scan and email the pics.

Got them today.
And a bonus.
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When I called to thank her, dad answered the phone. I asked him about this last one, which is a photo of my dear step-mom on her 60th birthday.

He said he had been out and about and just ran by a store that made birthday cakes.

When he got it home, my step-mom told him it was the first birthday cake she ever had.

Ever.

So this one is precious to all of us...

(Anonymous) 2012-08-27 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Did she have something instead of a cake? The birthday person in our family always got to choose what they wanted and for my youngest son, it was apple crisp.

Margel
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[identity profile] https://me.yahoo.com/claimingkin#ccd38 2012-09-01 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
These photos are WONDERFUL! Don't you just love it when you find out new information to add to your family archives?! I sure do!