Happy Halloween - Fifty Years Ago!

Halloween skit in 1973 at St. Agnes Academy, Houston, Texas - cropped from the 1974 Veritas yearbook.  That's me in the middle in the dark clothes - I think I'm supposed to be a tree (I'm in the process of pinning leaves from the bag on myself).  The bird standing at the left is Frances Rauer, next to her is Mary Lang, on the other side of me is Marie Carl, and my good friend Audrey Beust is seated on the floor, facing the camera.

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Mom Would've Been 95 Today

October 19, 2023, would have been the 95th birthday of my mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019). This photo was probably taken in early 1929, when my mother was a baby and her father, my grandfather Charles Peter Guokas Jr. (1903-1967), holding her, was 25.  They are outside their home with my great-grandparents, Charles (Kazimieras in Lithuanian) Guokas Sr. (1863-1939) and Elizabeth Banaitis Guokas (Elžbieta Banaitytė Guokienė in Lithuanian, 1875-1929), at 1717 Shearn in Houston, Texas.

 

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