June 1958 Photo of Randy, Scott, Betty and Fred Seaver Post 669 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday
I can t help it, I can t do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite colorized photographs:
This photograph was taken in June 1958 on the occasion of my graduation from Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School. It was taken in the patio (our ping pong center, whiffle ball field, and basketball court) near 2114 Fern Street in San Diego. We lived at 2119 30th Street, the upper floor of the house in the background.
Pictured here are, from the left: Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002), my mother, looking spiffy in her white suit and hat.
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Sunday is Mother s Day in the USA, and usually a time for memories and gratitude to our special birth person.
2) For this week s SNGF, tell us three things about your mother that are special and memorable to you.
3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.
Please leave a link in a comment to this post.
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The Frederick W. Seaver Family of San Diego, Plus a Cousin, in 1958 Post 654 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday
I can t help it, I can t do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:
In summer 1958, my aunt and uncle Walter and Evelyn (Seaver) Wood drove from Leominster, Massachusetts to San Diego with my grandmother, Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver and Walter and Evelyn s granddaughter, Diana. They stayed for about a week with the Marshall and Dorothy (Taylor) Chamberlain family in San Diego, where Bessie s sister, Emily (Richmond) Taylor lived. So it was a grand reunion of my father with his sister and mother after 16 years away from Massachusetts. This was the first and the last time that my brothers and I met our paternal grandmother.
I can t help it, I can t do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:
This photograph was taken in late 1943 (Christmas time?) or early 1944. The baby (only 2-3 months old) is your scribe, and that is my mother, Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002) lovingly holding me and beaming at me. Mom has her hair up and is wearing earrings and a dress. It is winter, but it s sunny in San Diego.
I think that the setting is on the side of my grandparents home at 2130 Fern Street in San Diego. My grandfather, Lyle L. Carringer, probably snapped this as a black and white photo.