These are one pair of Great Grandparents on my mother's side of the family. The young girl in this photo (who appears to be about 5-6 years old) is "Stella," my Grandmother Kirkpatrick. [This photo was taken about 1890.]
And these are my other Great Grandparents on my mother's side. The young boy who appears to be about 7-8 years old is my Grandfather Kirkpatrick. [This photo was also taken about 1890.]
This is a black & white photo of “Grandma Kirk” ("Stella Kirkpatrick") taken in 1951.
This is my Grandpa Kirk who I never met. This 'colorized' photo was taken about 1937. He died of colon cancer in 1939 (five years before I was born).
These are my SNIDER Grandparents (Edward M. and Carrie L. Snider) on my father's side of the family on the day they were wed in 1906.
This photo of my MOTHER was taken about 1917 when she was living with her mother and father (plus up to 10 other brothers and sisters) in a wooden house in the country that had no electricity or running water. He favorite pet was the little PIG which she is holding!
This photo of my grandfather Snider was taken around 1930 when he owned a small Sunoco service station located in the country approximately 10 miles outside Springfield, Ohio. At that time, he lived with my grandmother on a small farm located only a few blocks down the road from the Sunoco station.
These are my real father's parents (Edward M. Snider and Carrie L. Snider). This photo of them was taken in 1943—the year before I was born!
My real father had abandoned my mother and I when I was born and his parents took my mother and me into their home. We lived with my grandparents until my mother remarried when I was about six years old.
This is a studio portrait of my grandfather Snider, “Pappy.”
My mother, Agnes (4th from the left in this photo), was one of ten surviving brothers and sisters in the Kirkpatrick family). This photo of the family was taken in 1952 at my Grandma Kirk's farm near Marysville, Ohio.
This is my grandmother Stella Kirkpatrick (my mother's mother) and it is the only decent COLOR photo that I have of her.
In 1956 my SNIDER Grandparents celebrated their "Golden (50th) Wedding Anniversary" in their home.
This photo was taken in June 1962 at my High School Graduation party reception which my mother and step-father (“Fred”) had for me and my friends in our house.
In June 1966 I received my BS in Business Administration from Wittenberg University. My parents and grandparents were VERY proud of my accomplishment because none of them had had the opportunity to attend college. And, I could not have done it without their financial help and moral support!
My grandparents’ limited financial help in conjunction with my having earned a scholarship (as well as a special educational tuition reduction based on my Grandfather’s being an employee of Wittenberg) enabled me to attend Wittenberg university.
This photo of them together was taken in 1966/67. It is the last photo I have of the two of them together since my grandmother Snider (born in 1883) died in 1967 while I was in Miami, Florida working on my MBA
My grandfather Snider—in his late 80's in this photo—was still mentally & physically in GREAT shape. He helped me cut back the hedges at my parent's house in Springfield during the fall of 1969 before I left for a four year Navy tour in Japan.
Grandpa Snider (or "Pappy") continued to be quite active and still able to get around very well even though he was in his late 80's at this time.
Unfortunately, Pappy (born in 1882) had died in 1972 before I returned to the US at the end of my four-year Navy tour at Atsugi, Japan .
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