A PICTURE IS WORTH TEN THOUSAND WORDS

Transcription

1 Mary baby. the man area page, Nunda In all (Lyons) in John this 1913, of time their area McDonald looking holding married from Stillwater, for appears her lives, work. first John They to child, Minnesota again their died farmed Genevieve, right, on In 1965 the as in he a facing the came young and as Nunda a to A PICTURE IS WORTH TEN THOUSAND WORDS Shortly before the turn of the century, Margaret and Tim Kane In Chicago decided to give in to daughter Loretta, ("Etta"), and to let her have her picture taken In a studio in a grown up dress. Etta stretched and posed pensively in the best gay nineties style while the photographer and his camera hid beneath his shawl, opened his shutter, and fired off his flash powder, capturing this delightful Image for us. A few years later, Joe Coffey's mother, Nan, "dressed him to the nines" and took him off to the more modern new studio In Madison for the Hollywood- like result shown next to Etta.

2

3 This facing page is given over to pictures of the McDonald kids at tender ages. In 1926, Aunts and Uncles from Stillwater, Minnesota came visiting and put two- year-old Billy on the hood of their car for a snapshot. Earlier, Genevieve and Dickie had faced the studio camera in Madison, and, later, Billy had a turn there also. Still later, he was back again, this time with younger brothers Dean and Jerry.

4 "

5 The upper half of the collage on the facing page relates to the Dahl School, which was in the southeast corner of section 27 in Nunda Township. Viola Overski, daughter of Olai Overski, was the teacher there in the school year , and had this little souvenir booklet prepared for her students at the end of the year. The student body, shown against the backdrop of Vlola's new Plymouth, consists of Sylvia Dahl, Milo Stevenson, Dick McDonald, Carl Dahl, Bill McDonald, Jackie Hoidal and Kermit Alfson. The McDonald contingent had only just arrived a few months earlier, on moving day, March 1st, Six years later,iin 1937, the Dahl School student body was photographed again - Bill McDonald (grade 8) and Jackie Hoidal (grade 7) were the only holdovers, Dean McDonald stands with them in the back row. Flanking Dean are Jerry McDonald and Ernest Dahl, these five had constituted the entire student body up until March 1st, when the three Schuler brothers and the Hagedorn boy moved in. Our teacher that year was Ann (Overski) Webster, a younger sister to Viola. The lower section shows a barefoot Jerry McDonald feeding a pet lamb in 1933, and his sister Genevieve with the family pony, Teddy, In Her letter "E represents Eastern Normal School In Madison, later renamed "General Beadle State Teacher's College" and now known as "Dakota State". The remaining snapshot shows Mary Ann (Harrington) Lyons In 1938, assembled with her six granddaughters for her 80th birthday. Typically, the scene was moved outside for the picture, to get enough light for the camera. Starting on the left, the roll call of granddaughters Is shown below (married names are shown although all were single at the time). Rita Schuster, Genevieve (McDonald) Olson, Eileen (Malland) Bearss, Mary Ann (Lyons) Bodensteiner, June (Schuster) Rounds and Mary (Schuster) Schnell

6 1. 2. SOUVENIR School Days..

7 This final page of our family photo album gives a few glimpses into the McDonald family as time goes on. The scenes of John mowing hay with his favorite team were taken in The land where they work is the same land where David Molumby and his wife, Mary (Crossgrove) Molumby were raising their family when we looked in on them in Mary's cousin, Kate Crossgrove, was living with them then, teaching school, and Will Lyons was courting Kate. As the nineteen forties came on many young men, including Jerry and Bill, were seen in uniform, as here, Much later still, in 1979, the surviving McDonalds were together on the occasion of the marriage of Maureen Olson, daughter of Harry and Genevieve (McDonald) Olson, to Dick Mumbleau. Dick had died in 1951, John in 1965 and Mary in Jerry, Dean, Genevieve and Bill are shown here, reading left to right. "

8

9

10