These posts are about the story of my mother’s adoption.
Wanda and Lee loved to travel and had some great friends and traveling companions as mentioned in MLV. Just some of their traveling companions were… Read More »Wanda and Lee’s Friends and Traveling Companions
Wanda and Genevieve were best friends all through high school and all of life. It was a special friendship Wanda so cherished. Genny and… Read More »Mother’s best friend, Genevieve Grace Matyak
Howard and Elizabeth Houck were very close friends of Grandpa and Grandma Keller. Great memories of the Houck Picnic every summer. Janice and Louie Nash stopped… Read More »My grandparents great friends Howard and Elizabeth Houck- Photos of the Houck Picnic and the Sewing Circle Group
Back row: John Keller, Lynn Keller, Alta Keller Thompson Front row: Ella Keller Thompson, Lilly Keller Worthington (Lynn’s twin sister), Levi Keller At Lynn and… Read More »Alfred and Celestia Keller Family (Grandpa Keller’s parents)
Nick Belt was Wanda’s birth father. He grew up in Chatauqua County on a farm northeast of Sedan, Kansas. He passed away many years before… Read More »Meet Nick
After finding Mother’s birth mother, I was able to also find relatives of her birth father. Charles Tanksley was Mother’s first cousin. He and… Read More »Charles and Dolores Tanksley
Leona and Wanda both loved music but couldn’t carry a tune. Something they shared in common. This is Grandma Leona’s 1910 Edison Phonograph that belonged… Read More »Leona and Wanda enjoying music
Marcia Hendrickson/Wanda June Keller Born Valentine’s Day February 14, 1925 Wanda JuneAlmost 2 years old Getting ready to water the gardenWanda with broken nose from… Read More »Baby Marcia
Proof that fishing, hunting, gardening, and cooking are inherited traits. 🙂 Leona’s haul Wanda’s haul Grandpa helping Wanda hold her fish. Wanda shooting Babe and Wanda’s game… Read More »Is fishing an inherited trait? What about hunting? Gardening? Cooking?
This is a photo of my mother and Grandma Leona at the Keller/Parr farm when Grandma Leona came to visit us for the first time in October 1991.