Photos
Ruth dressed for snow
Mother couldn't identify these people.
Gladys Sandy and Sue Gillions - Ruth's high school classmates
Ruth
News stories about friends and relatives
Taylor Brann's 90th birthday. This clipping was taped together as shown here.
Dr. and Mrs. Davis, from England, were close friends of our parents. They got together regularly to play mah jongg. Their son Ian worked for Reynolds Metals.
Dr. and Mrs. Caffey and their daughter Betsy lived across from us in the Tin Shacks at the VA Hospital in Roanoke.
Obituaries
Ettlemond Scott was Edgar Scott's brother.
Garland Belote was Mamie Scott's brother.
Lillian Cralle Reynolds was Maude Brann's sister.
Mary Berry was Robert Scott's first cousin.
Samuel Brann was Luella Brann's husband.
Documents
This card, the size of a business card, appears to be a Victorian dating aid. (John William Brann and Nannie Maude Cralle were married December 30, 1894.)
Ruth's high school graduation program. The word "giftory" and the implied word "giftorian" are not in any dictionary I can find, but there are references to them on the Web. Mother says her role as giftorian was to hand out gag gifts from the class to each of the graduates. Her gift was a bottle of perfume, to keep her just as sweet as she was. Bernice King, the valedictorian, became Bernice Brooks.
This looks cold and unfeeling out of context, but Mother continues to this day to receive a substantial civil service annuity payment every month.
History
S. W. Belote, or Sidney Belote, was Mamie Scott's half brother.