This is Part 4 of Retro Photos of My In-Laws!
This picture is my husband’s paternal grandfather’s paternal grandparents. (There HAS to be another word for that!) Don’t they look like they’ve had such a hard life? It’s sad. But also inspiring.
I asked my husband’s grandfather about this picture and about his grandparents. The only thing he really said was that his grandfather had his eye poked out. (POKED OUT?!) But this picture was before that happened. Oh my. How scary is that?! Maybe he was more of an OUT-law!
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Ann’s Wedding Picture. 1951. 17 years old.
Last week I showed you a romantic picture of my husband’s grandmother and grandfather. After his grandmother died in 1988, his grandfather remarried two years later. He married a girl he had known as a young man. They had even been on a date before! She had been a widow of four years. My husband’s family calls her Granny Ann and they have been married for 20 years!
Granny Ann is a non-pretentious, sweet woman who loves her new family like they were her very own. She even buys Lydia and Asa Christmas presents every year! This completely stuns me as she already has SIX children of her own and who knows how many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
I love this picture of her because you can see the hope and promise in her eyes. Her hat is delicious and I love her corsage. She is beautiful inside and out!
(Oh, and she’s the one who gave me the pound cake recipe!)
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This is my husband’s paternal grandmother and grandfather. They were married at fourteen (!!) and nineteen so this is sometime after that. Around 1951.
His grandmother died in 1988, she was only 52. She was an amazing woman that graduated from college the same year as her college-aged son, continued to get her Masters degree and was an ordained minister. I never met her but have only heard loving and awesome stories about her.
This is a precious picture of their love and the beginning of their family.
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