It's been a fairly busy couple of weeks. By my standards anyway ( Read more... )

Last night I spent a lot of time lying in bed poring over my photo albums and stopping to think about various pictures. Several times I came across photos of Nanny and was finding it a bit weird to think that when I was little she was younger than my mother is now as I don't consider that old at all. It makes me happy to know that there's another ( Read more... )

Mum just posted this article from the Herald-Dispatch on Facebook and I thought I'd share it. The little girl in the photo is my first cousin once removed, the lady sitting behind her and just to the right is my aunt and the woman in the centre wearing black slacks is my lovely grandmother, Doris Mae (aka Nanny). :o)

My paternal grandfather, Alva William Dillon, was born on 12 July, 1909, so today would have been his 100th birthday. I wish he were still around to celebrate it, but as he's not I would like to mark the occasion by sharing what few memories I have of him.


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