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ALL IN THE FAMILY TWO BY TWO - PART 3

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  Once upon a time there was a young man – Henry (Harry) Edgar Brasier, seen here with his dog.  He still had a little growing up to do, but he was on his way. There was also a lovely young woman, Lillian Ross Pringle on the left, (who preferred to be called “Ross”), here with one of her older sisters – Florence, I believe.  Ross had 3 older sisters, and 6 older brothers.  She was the youngest of 12 children. (Two, who would have been older brothers, died at young ages.)   And here are their mothers: On the left is Harry’s mother, Annie (Weatherhead) Brasier, and on the right, Ross’s mother, Margaret (Forbes) Pringle. It is not recorded how the young man and young woman met, but meet they did, fell in love, and in 1909, were married. Here are the lovebirds on their honeymoon.  She was 28, and he was 30. The following year, 1910, Ross was holding her firstborn – a little girl they named Virginia Rossmore Brasier. Two years later Virginia had a younger sister, Phyllis, both seen here
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ALL IN THE FAMILY TWO BY TWO - PART 2

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  My Dad & me in 1941 And in 1964 Me & Mom in 1944 And in 1966 Do I know you?   Me & myself at 2 and 24 My brother and me in 1945 at Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco.  I remember the swing was red, my hat was red, and my coat was a brown & white check. :) And 13 years later sitting on a rock in the middle of Meeks Creek, Lake Tahoe.  I remember my blouse was white. :[] Me & my middle Sis in 1952  And in 1964 – still on the porch.  Except now I’m the one with bangs. My youngest Sis and me in 1950 And in 1967 just home from a Cal Bears football game in Berkeley, CA.   Her boyfriend at the time played in the Cal Band so we went to all the home games – she, to watch her boyfriend in the band; me, to watch the game! Youngest & middle sisters in 1956 And in reverse order in 1966 My bro’ and middle sis in 1951-52 And 10 years later in a salute to dancing you've seen before. J Bro’ and youngest sis in 1954 And in 1962.  Whether wading in a stream in summer, or sho
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ALL IN THE FAMILY TWO BY TWO - PART 1

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  Once upon a time there was a young girl, Lillian Adelle Whitney (my Mom), seen here with her mother (my Grandma Louise), Bertha Louise (Parton) Whitney in 1928. The young girl had a grandmother, Johanna Magdelina (Hedmon) Parton/Kellstrom, seen here on the right with her daughter. Bertha Louise (Parton) Whitney. The young girl also had a younger brother (my Uncle ‘Jim’), Ira Edwin Whitney, the pair seen here on the beach at Santa Cruz in 1928. And here they are 45 years later in 1973. The young girl grew up and met a nice young man (my father), Herbert Kinsey Bradley, who came from good family. Here are his mother, Harriet Bell (Smedley) Bradley, and his father, Frank Herbert Bradley, pictured on their honeymoon in 1906. And later in the 1920s or early ‘30s. The nice young man, & the young girl/now young woman, were married on June 17, 1939. Here she is with her mother in 1942 And again with her Mom in 1964, come to celebrate her daughter’s 46 th birthday. And in 1983 that young
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