"Favorite Photo"

Who is the lady in the glasses? 

1953

Back row: Jackie Rollins, Robert and Mary Fueston

Front Row, Ann "Dinky" Fueston, Ann Olsen

This is one of many of my favorite photos.   It was taken at my parent's, Robert Fueston and Jackie Rollins, engagement party. 

 First off I didn't know they had an engagement party, which was fun to discover.  And second there has been a lot of family chatter about "who is that lady with the glasses?" 

After much banter, and me saying with confidence, that lady is NOT Ann Olsen,  I stand corrected. She is our grandmother.  Our Aunt Jenny was right...she said that she thought the lady was "nana with her teeth in."  I don't remember ever seeing her with teeth.   

Several things happened to help positively identify this lady.  First off, late last year I decided to pull old photos out of one of those awful sticky photo albums. Peeling off the photos created a loose pile of photos which made arranging them in stacks easier.  Secondly, I arranged them together in groups based on clothes, and surroundings.   That was no small task.  Finally, now that the photos were loose I could turn them over and boy was I gob smacked. Some photos had names and events written on the back of them. I couldn't see these writings before because they were stuck down in that awful sticky album!  

These favorite people of mine are all gone now, but this photo has such meaning.  I now know the event that was being captured and who "the lady with the glasses" is.  

And that's a wrap for this photo

Stitching Together Another Family Story

Ann Olsen will be my focus person to write about this week, stay tuned

Barbara 

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