My mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019), pregnant with me, outside hers and Dad's apartment at 2059 W Touhy Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
Showing posts with label Mother's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mother's Day. Show all posts
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mother's Day to My Mom in Heaven!
First Mother's Day without my mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019). This is a picture of her from early 1957, when she was pregnant with me.
© Amanda Pape - 2020 - e-mail me!
© Amanda Pape - 2020 - e-mail me!
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mother's Day!
My mom, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape, with her first grandchild, my son Eric Weston Bolme, in October 1990 at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle.
© Amanda Pape - 2019 - e-mail me!
© Amanda Pape - 2019 - e-mail me!
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mother's Day to My Mom!
Geraldine Guokas Pape, in Chicago, Illinois, 1956 or 1957, when pregnant with me.
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Saturday, May 13, 2017
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mother's Day!
My mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape, at a baby shower given by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law in Chicago, Illinois, before I was born in 1957.
© Amanda Pape - 2017 - click here to e-mail me.
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mother's Day!
© Amanda Pape - 2014 - click here to e-mail me.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
© Amanda Pape - 2013 - click here to e-mail me.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
Mom (Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape) and me, maybe around her first Mother's Day, 1957
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mothers Day, Mom!
Me and my mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape, taken in Chicago or Evanston in the winter of 1957-1958. You can just barely see Mom's saddle shoes in the bottom right corner of the photo on the left.
© Amanda Pape - 2011 - click here to e-mail me.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Sentimental Sunday: Happy Mothers' Day!
A number of the blogs I follow posted about this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun created by Randy Seaver, the first part of which is:List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother.
I didn't have time to do this last night, since I worked until 10 PM and had to be at work at noon today (with 45 minutes of commuting each way), but I thought it would be a perfect Mother's Day post! Here is my maternal line:
1 - Me.
2 - My mom, Geraldine Margaret GUOKAS, married to Frederick Henry PAPE.
3 - My grandmother, aka Nani, Sara Melzina WOLFE (18 March 1908 - 16 November 1997), married to Charles Peter GUOKAS Jr. and later to Wallace Archibald.
4 - My great-grandmother, Addilee Tennessee SHELTON (4 March 1890 - 22 August 1977), married to Louis Henry WOLFE and later to Charles B. Harris.
5 - Sarah Ann (or Sarianne) SPIKES (28 September 1871 - 10 April 1935), married to Levi Marion SHELTON.
6 - Lucy Leah PICKERING (or PICKENS) (27 May 1835 - 8 June 1903), married to George Washington Barton and later to Levi Lewis SPIKES.
Lucy Leah is one of our brick walls - I don't know anything about her parents, so my matrilineal line stops there. I'm the oldest daughter of an oldest daughter of an oldest daughter of an oldest daughter (well, sorta; her older sister died at birth) of an oldest daughter (again, sorta; for her mother she was).
The photo above of numbers 1 through 4 was taken in early 1958 in Houston, Texas, sometime between January (when my parents moved from Evanston, Illinois, to Houston) and March 17 (when my sister was born). My mom is on the left, pregnant with my sister. My great-grandmother is holding me (I'm somewhere between 9 and 11 months old), and Nani, my grandmother, is on the right.
The photo below has numbers 3 though 5 and was taken sometime before 1935, probably in Louisiana. My grandmother Sara is on the far right, her mother Addilee is the dark haired woman to her right, and her grandmother (my great-great grandmother) Sarah Spikes Shelton is the woman in the middle.
© Amanda Pape - 2010
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