Monday Is for Mothers: Alta Mae Slater (1917 - 1986)

Although I never met my birth mother I have a lot of pictures of her, thanks to my Aunt Topsy.*

[Grandad (Tomlinson) built pen of quakers/Alta at Camp Rain, probably 1918]

[Alta and her brother James, probably 1920]

[Alta Mae, undated photo]

[Eighth Grade Graduation, Alta is in the front row, second from the right]

[Alta at Longmont High]

[Alta (high school?)]

[Alta (undated)]

[Alta c.1950 at her brother's house in California]

[Undated, but cute!]

[Alta in Japan c.1954]

[Alta - Longfellow School, Oakland, California, 1960s]

[Alta and husband Pete Norville again visiting family in California, c.1970]

*Alta's sister-in-law, she married James Slater. All the photos in this post (except the Oakland one) are from family collections that she's graciously shared with us.



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