Sentimental Sunday: "Fishing ? on Miss River" - Winona, Minnesota, October 1951

Last year, while cleaning out the study of my late father, Frederick Henry Pape (1929-2017), I found a number of old black-and-white photos from the early and mid-1950s.  Some of them appear to have been taken by his father, my Grandpa, Paul Robert Pape (1896-1970), and may have been sent to my dad during his time in Korea.  Grandpa put numbers on the front of the images, and also wrote captions on the back.  The caption on this one said, "At Winona Minn fishing ? on Miss River Oct 1951."

The woman on the left is my aunt, Dad's sister Marilyn Electa Pape Hedger.  The woman on the right is her mother, my grandmother, Elizabeth Florence Massmann Pape (1902-2000).  Marilyn is wearing the same outfit (and the background is the same) as in another undated photo of her and Grandpa, so this photo helped me date that one.

Marilyn attended the College of Saint Teresa in Winona around this time, so that is probably why they were there.

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