12 Months of Photos January 2024 Grandparents

Question

January 2024 12 Months of Photos sharing theme: Grandparents

To participate, simply:

1. Choose a family photo that fits this week's theme.
2. Add it to this month's free-space gallery.
3. Reply with an answer below to let us know which photo you're sharing. If you want to include the photo but don't know how, click here.

The photo you share might be featured on the WikiTree home page and in our social media channels.

It is requested that no "best answer" stars be given to any photo, as they are all great pictures without exception and none should be preferred over the other.

Answer 1

This is a photo of my maternal grandparent's 40th Wedding Anniversary.

My grandparents Rijk van Klooster and Berta Prinssen at the top. And at the bottom from left to right, daughters Bep and Alida and daughter-in-law Ina.

Comments

That's a great photo, full of laughter. What year was it taken?

---

The photo is from 21 September 1958.

Answer 2

This young couple are my great grandparents, on my dad's maternal branch of the family. They were married on 5 November 1888 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Richards-13895

They had 11 children between Nov 1888 and June 1902 when Samuel died unexpectedly at age 35. Leaving his wife Jenny with 11 children under the age of 14. My grandmother was the middle child. The youngest 2 children were born on  4 April 1901 and 20 May 1902. It's always been a game to try and guess how many more children they would have had if he had not died She was 37 when he died, perhaps another 7 years or more of child bearing years! 

 

Comments

Gorgeous photo, M, but your link brings us to "this page does not exist."

---

It's the . on the end. Try

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Richards-13895

---

Thank you, Jim.  M's photos add such a lovely touch to her profiles.

---

Thank you Pat, have you seen this photo?

https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/89/Jones-85710.jpg

It was taken in the spring of 1903, about 8-10 months after Samuel died.

Jenny looks very tired, my grandmother is 3rd from the left.

---

Yeah, I can't even imagine how difficult that was for her to have such a large family, then lose her husband.

Answer 3

Lilly Schacht-454 and Gunnar Nielsen-12900 are my maternal grandparents. I never met Morfar (Danish for mother's father) since he passed away long before I arrived in this world. I only met Mormor (Danish for mother's mother) a few times since she lived across the big pond.  She passed away in my youth. But I remember that she was a wonderful lady, willing to play board games and cards with me. I believe this picture was taken the year Gunnar passed away. Several copies were made so that each of their 12 children could have one.  It is only one of two pictures (that I have come across) taken of Gunnar.

Comments

Board games and cards? Just like my 2 grandmas :)

I love their expressions, beautiful photo Karen.

Answer 4

This is a 1946 photo of my paternal grandparents: Pearl and C.A. Lovelace Sr. My mother is holding me, and we have moved to Oregon to live with them. 

My grandmother was not much of a movie goer, but she would take me to see "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies, and she would laugh and laugh. I love this photo of her looking like she has been working and he is relaxing wearing a suit.

Comments

Love the photo, Alexis.  Everyone looks relaxed and you're a cutie.  But my memory of Before-My-Time movies seen on a 1960s B & W TV tricked me into thinking Ma and Pa Kettle were a 1930s couple with Marie Dressler as Ma.  Looked it up and no, it was Marjorie Main. Marie was in Dinner at Eight.

Answer 5

These are my maternal grandparents, Walter "Dallas" Martin and Ella K. (Cutright) Martin celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in 1979. 

Answer 6

My Maternal Great Grandparents https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Roark-1119 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miller-80565

Comments

What a great photo! Do you have names for everyone?

---

Thanks ! There are 5 out of 9 children here..Oldest to youngest Arthur, Orval ,Royal ,Olive and Carrie Roark. Parents Byrd Elias Roark and Mannie Emily Miller Roark. My grandmother Nora Delilah Roark Cooksey isn't in the photo. She would have been the 7th child.

Answer 7

My maternal grandmother was http://WikiTree.com/wiki/Loock-138, Mary Christine Loock until she married http://WikiTree.com/wiki/Stielow-19, Charles William Stielow in June 1912.  I never met Mary.  She died of a heart attack while washing the dishes in November 1936.  As a young woman she loved wearing hats, a family trait it seems as Mom loved wearing hats and I loved wearing hats.  Here is Mary wearing one of her hats.

Comments

Pat, thank you for sharing such a wonderful photo of your grandmother Mary. I do love her absolutely fabulous hat. My mother also loved wearing hats. She and my maternal grandmother made several hats while they were taking in class in hat making in the late 1950s.

---

Thank you, Alexis.  That sounds like a class my mother and I would have loved to take.

---

I'm known to locals as "The Hat Lady."  Everywhere I go, people comment on my hats.  Just love them. 

So wonderful to know there are other hat lovers out there.  LOVE the one she is wearing.  Perfect!!

---

Thank you, Teresa.  Hat lovers of the world unite.  I just bought another one two days ago.

Answer 8

The lovely couple in this colorized photo, are my great-grandparents Willy Borchers, a german merchant sailor, and Luz Antonia Gonzalez, the chilean lady who became his last Port. They met in Antofagasta, Chile when his vessel, the Carl, was detained. (Photo: c.1930)

Comments

What a beautiful couple!

---

Thanks Maria! I would have loved to meet them.

Answer 9

I am sharing a photo of My grandparents John Ballinger West and Alice Lucille Coulter when they married

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/West-11108

Answer 10

The 2020 Pioneer Village Parade, of vintage equipment, is about to start and Grampa Tractor is without an operator.....up hops Gramma Kathy and as the parade comes around a bend, to the grandstand, I leaned over to the announcer to comment that, "Gramma and 'Grampa' were both born in the same year".......meanwhile Cousin Frank heard a small boy comment to his mother, "I wish I had a Gramma like that".

Answer 11

I recently discovered this newspaper image of my grandmother, Bonnie (at right), with her siblings Tillie and Jack and their pet alligator. This was a big deal for small town Indiana in 1953!