Pictures from the 1960's Another selection of pictures from the 1960s


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This was an unsettled USA decade.

The country may have been unsettled
but our family got off to a good start
and is still going strong 12-2019.

Alan and Susan started school at Valley View Elementary
We moved from Simcox St. to Brouse Dr.
Summer vacations at the cottage in Winnetaska

Black and white TV with 4 channels!
McDFord was sold as Father died.

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Kathleeb two yers old
WOW !
Big cake
Must have been good



Kathleen and Susan 4th of July 1969 .




A very special picture taken at Brouse drive
Kathleeb two yers old







Alan, Kathleen and Susan.
Alan all dressed up and Susan.
 Is this a slide crash?

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Susan and Alan have unique expressions.
Susan Alan and Isabell and Neal Sink
Van Wert IA area farm
My time there was so important.
An early introducion that life
could be so different.
Maybe not better or worse
Just different.
 Susan so very young. It is so interesting to look at a
picture of one of your children this
age and then see what they have
made of their lives.
Hmm, Of course you could say
that about their parents also.

"
Sorry, I know not who you are.
Is that Cady playing with a trash can?
 Sure looks as if Susan Alan and another are enjoying the winter.


 





Susan and Alan,
but I guess you knew that.
Alan's 1963 birthday party'
and a big one for sure.
Even formal headwear.
Wish this were a better< picture.





Alan and Susan in front of President Herbert Hoover's birth place at West Branch Iowa. July 1967






This is a suprize seing Susan
and Alan playing Risk, a war
game.Alan is a pro. I heard a
man on TV yesterday 7-2019 talkiing
about the game yesterday.
Alan and others on the cottage

beach enjoying the nice day.

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Susan with longer hair than she has now.

.She looks great either way.


The Kathleen standing and
and looking at something.
Susan and Alan in front
of our house on Brouse
Is Alan giving a flower to Susan Kay?
Att to Alan postcard. Andrea and
Erin liked Candyland, especially Andrea
as she played it as a child.
The color may be 'different'
but think this is awonderful
Mother Daughter picture
They look so good together especially enlarged.
Kathleen Minnie Nitz
Richard Bruce McDowell
Don't they make a great couple?'
    Our children keeping Santa company.

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Susan and Dale Murphy

at the cottage 1967.




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A duplicate hope I find.
another picture
 McDowell family 59 years ago.
All of us did well
in this journy
through life.
"
The five partial summers on the.
Neal Sink farm were so valuable to me
I learned early in life that
there were different ways to live
and enjoy life.
Susan and her mother Kathleen.
Before I forget a white rabbit
Kathleen just loved to make fancy cakes
Every one was a suprise to all.
 WHAT! Both kids outside and standing still?.
Amazing something special.
In their 60's they are still very active.'


 





Palm Sunday 1967
St Mark's Episcopal Church.
Something seems wrong with this picture
but I do not know what.
Kathleen Alan Richard.
Of the three at least
at least Susan seems alert.










At the beach,Kathleen and
someone.esterday.
In the bleak mid winter.
January Alan and Susan are exploring
the snow fall.

Alan and slide. Snow now mud

Susan missing



Susan and Alan Really?

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Richard Alan and Christine


  Just below, who are those two children?
They look so familiar.


Hello Susan and Alan
         Susan and Alan in a Back yard





Guess where, Right, Brouse Drive Wadsworth

kay and kids cards
Every one seemes to have a
picture playing cards
with the kids but me. :)




No one knows where the Red Box came from, but it was liked and used a lot.