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This isn't specifically a memory about Mother's Day, but it is a memory of my mom, and her mother, my maternal grandmother.  This ph...

Nineteen years ago, Mark went with me to the 2007 Texas Library Association Conference, held April 11-14 that year in San Antonio, Texas.  T...

My family at Easter in 1968, which was April 15 that year, probably in the backyard of the home of my maternal grandmother, Sara Melzina Wol...

It's also not noted on either of our calendars from 2006, but apparently Mark and I attended THREE family events on Saturday, November 1...

This isn't specifically a memory about Father's Day, but it is a memory of my dad.  The photo below is from a visit from my parents ...

This isn't specifically a memory about Mother's Day, but it is a memory of my mom, her sister, and their mother, my maternal grandmo...

My sister recently sent me various official documents pertaining to our parents.  She was the executor of their estates, but no longer neede...

Seven years ago, my father, Frederick Henry Pape , died rather suddenly at age 88.  It's the anniversary of the first of three family de...

...my parents, Geraldine Margaret Guokas (1928-2019) and Frederick Henry Pape (1929-2017) got married, September 11, 1954, at Annunciation...

This isn't specifically a memory about Father's Day, but it is a memory of my dad.  The photo below is from a visit my parents made ...

This isn't specifically a memory about Mother's Day, but it is a memory of my mom.  The photo below of my mother, Geraldine Margaret...

The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 , was a special one for me, as I got to spend it with my husband Mark and with my children, Eric (o...

Easter in 1964 was on March 29.  We visited my aunt, Sister Jean Marie Guokas, at Bishop Byrne High School in Port Arthur, Texas, where she ...

My sweetie and I on May 13, 2006, the day I received my Master of Science in Library Science degree from the University of North Texas . © ...

Six years ago, my father, Frederick Henry Pape , died rather suddenly at age 88.  I still can't believe it's been that long, and I s...

Frederick Henry Pape (1929-2017) and daughter Karen Pape with Barney the basset hound and grandson/nephew Eric Bolme, 717 Rawlins, Lancaster...

Eric Bolme escorts his maternal grandmother Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019) to her seat at his uncle (her son) Mark Pape's we...

Today my dad's youngest sister, Marilyn Electa Pape Hedger, turns 90!  She has six children, twenty-six grandchildren, and at least thir...

My sweetie and me on May 12, 2006, the day I was inducted into  Beta Phi Mu , the international honor society for library and information sc...

My dad, Frederick Henry Pape (1929-2017) , on page 25 in The Grad Prep , June 1945, Volume XII, the yearbook of Loyola Academy , which was t...