Family Friday: Slater/Webb

This snapshot of my maternal grandparents Anna (Webb) and Harry Slater was taken on the beach east of Panama City in 1954 while they were in Florida to attend the wedding of their son James and Olive Rucker.

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

[A pictorial map of Florida. 1954 by Sales Management Magazine. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.]

[Panama City on Florida Panhandle, detail of above map]

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Family Friday: Slaters at Coit Tower

Sightseeing at the Coit Tower in San Francisco in about 1957 are (left to right) my Aunt Olive, my birth mother Alta Mae Slater Norville and my grandmother Anna Delilah Webb Slater. You can see in the second photo that my grandmother's attention was actually directed at my cousin Susan.  (Apparently my Uncle Jim was hovering just outside of the photo since the plaid shirt shirt on the right side is labeled "Jim")

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

My grandfather Harry Allen Slater died in 1956, and I don't think Jim is behind the camera so perhaps Alta's husband Pete Norville was the photographer?*

*He and Alta had moved to Corte Madera in 1957.

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Family Friday: Slater

Left to right in this 1954 photo taken in Washington D.C. are my great-aunt Opal May Slater (1890-1973), my uncle James Robert Slater (1919-1984) my maternal grandmother Anna Delilah Webb (1891-1973), my maternal grandfather Harry Allen Slater (1888-1956) and bringing a stylish note into the family, my uncle's new bride Olive Eugenie Rucker (1929-) whose nickname in those days was Topsy.*

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

*We know her as Aunt Olive and her careful preservation of Slater family photos and records and generosity in sharing them with us is greatly appreciated.

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