This group posing in the garden on a sunny day in the summer of 1954 includes (left to right) Eben Conner (1901-1960), his step-mother Florence Hilda Peterson (1879-1968), his wife Ada Winifred Couzens (1904-1971) and the sanding man on the right is his father Calvin Marion Conner (1875-1958). Seven-year-old me at the center of the photo in front of Bernice Evangeline Grenfell (1902-1980) and on my left is Harold Delbert Currey (1902-1981)--the parents who raised me.
Every summer that we went to Oregon we always visited the Conners who were supposed to have some family connection to the Curreys but it was never explained to me and I haven't been able to verify the story but Dad's photo album from the 1910s has photos of various Conners.
[From my personal collection]
Looking at this picture now, I can see that we Southern Californians were dressed in brighter colors than the Oregon residents. Mother, whose hair is obviously recovering from a home perm, is wearing a mustard-colored dress that she had sewn using a narrow-wale corduroy and adding Navajo silver buttons bought on our trip to South Dakota the year before. I'm pretty sure she's pinned this Mexican silver broach to her collar; it was a favorite of hers.
[From my personal collection]
© 2016 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.
It would have been nice if you had also been able to keep the buttons!
ReplyDeleteI have some Navajo silver buttons too...and the Navajo silver belt that she was wearing on that day but is so hard to see that I didn't mention it.)
ReplyDelete