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Don was born May 6th 1935

In New York City, NY

 Mary was born November 16th 1935

In Red Bank, NJ

Mom holding me

6 weeks old

Mary came in a basket

3 months old

2 months old and catching some rays

on the roof of the apartment building

Mary 6 mos. old with her dad

Dad says "catch!" 3 months old

8 months old

8 months old

10 mos. old with cousin Jean and Aunt Gertrude

1 year old riding a birthday present.

 Note the floor model radio in the background

 which is covered in cork!

(It made a great dart board when I was older)

18 mos. "If I wore dresses everyone

wouldn't keep saying what a cute little guy"

Note beret with pom pom -

 I was way ahead of the armed forces!

2 years old. 

"Why do I have to wear this dweeby hat!"

My first steps at 14 mos. old

and I was quick enough to catch a butterfly!

4 years old and going to Sunday School

"Lie down and I'll bury you!"

14 mos. old

Mom brought home "Teddy" as a surprise!

 I hope he doesn't want me for dinner

 

My first swimming lesson

6 years old

Christmas Morning with my first big doll. Rushing in to get this present I dropped my favorite older doll and her head broke into pieces - and I was horrified when my Mom said "It doesn't matter - you have a new bigger doll!" She didn't seem to understand that my baby was dead! (I never really liked the new one after that)

14 mos. old

& check out that stylish wool bathing suit!

7 years old with my first swing set.

If it swung real high it would tip over!

21 mos. old with cousin Gloria

 

7 years old on the farm

2 years old

someday I want to be a lifeguard...

 

7 years old with my mom

This picture of Mary's mom Hazel, was taken in 1943. She was only 38 yrs. old.

Her life was difficult, and it can be seen in her face. A divorced woman, with an 8 year old child living on a small farm with her parents during the second world war. Hazel worked a 12 hour day, and had a day off every two weeks. Her commute was about a 30 mile round trip on country roads. She would have to shovel out a winding driveway whenever it snowed.

2 years old

 and striking a bargain with the ice cream vendor

8th birthday party with my friends Kitty and Joan. The white tubes we are holding were parachute launchers. We would put a flimsy silk parachute with an attached cardboard soldier into the tube and aim it skyward and BLOW!

It worked real well until the tube got soggy from saliva...

2 years old

8 yrs. old and an aspiring ballerina

 

3 years old on Central Park West

dressed in the height of fashion.

Note the awnings on the building

 (no air-conditioning)

 

8 yrs. old

I had the complete cowboy outfit

with 2 guns, hat, shirt vest, and chaps!

(Note from Don)

"My parents wouldn't let me play with guns

 and I had to 'make believe' with bent sticks.

That's just not fair!!"

3 yrs. old with cousin Gloria

My mom in her nursing uniform

 

3 years old and accepted my first

Naval Commission

9 year old birthday trip to Asbury Park NJ

4 years old with my cousin Steve.

Can you BELIEVE those outfits!

 

10 yrs. old with my friend Carol

7 years old and checking out the girls

10 yrs. old at Easter with my mom & Chad

10 years old. That floating thing never worked right. It was a WWII life preserver meant to wrap around you and the ends buckled together -

it formed a triangle that would pinch you to death!

 

11 years old with mom
          

                                 My Mom - 1947                                My baby sister Florence (Rusty)

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