Another with the neighbor boy

Sorry for the hiatus

I give you Kenneth and Ruthe Cooper with Jimmy Fennimore, circa 1941.  Kenneth is decked out in his Kemper Military Academy gear.

Ruthe reading the paper

Will and Kenneth

1942

Ginny

Weston Distilling

Ruthe as a Red Cross Volunteer

Ruthe on the phone

Phone were a bit less central to everyone's lives in the 1940s, so I guess it's picture-worthy.

The Preacher's Kid

Ruthe, 1940s

Quentin Wilson with his grandfather

Quentin Wilson and John Meeker

Ben Meeker's family

Trudy holding John and Ginny.  I like this picture because Trudy and Ginny look so happy and beautiful.

Propaganda

Laughing until crying

Overlooking the Missouri River

The caption for this picture reads "The only bridge we ever play."

Kenneth and Ruthe's Boonville apartment

I think that they had an apartment that people in Chicago call a garden apartment.  People in the suburbs call this the basement.

Jerome

A neighbor from Boonville, 1942

Kenneth and his big feet

Harold, Kenneth and Will Cooper

Honeymoon at Lake of the Ozarks

 The scenic Government Beach at the Lake of the Ozarks, where Kenneth and Ruthe camped for their honeymoon.

Harold after dinner

Apparently, Ruthe's dinner hit the spot.

Will and Josie Cooper, 1942

Homer the cat

There's an entire page dedicated to Homer the cat (or at least I think all of these are pictures of Homer).

The happy young couple

Sharing the chore of washing and drying the dishes.

Caged Ruthe

Harold home on furlough

Disillusionment

What the bride expected after the wedding.

What married life turned out to be.

(I cannot take credit for these captions - Kenneth wrote them in the photo album.)

Gladys knitting

A bad picture of very good bread

My grandmother's homemade bread was the best thing ever. Or at least I always thought so.

Grandpa thought so, too, and he took a rather blurry picture of it early in their marriage.

Poage advertisement

Harold, Josie and cats

One of the things about the photo albums that I always find interesting is the editing that was done over the years.  There are often two different hands in the captions -- and I like the inclusion of "Kenneth's mother" rather than Josephine or Josie.

He holds his liquor

A picture from Ruthe and Kenneth's honeymoon at Lake of the Ozarks

Goozums

I do not know whom Goozums belonged to, but there he is in the album.

Dorothy and Gladys

1942

What's they're doing is beyond me, and the photo album lacked a caption on this one.

Old Yearbooks

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has digitized a number of old yearbooks, including the Chowan's.  While it's not family photos, it's still really cool.

One of my favorites from the early years at Chowan:

1915 Basketball team

Gladys

1942

End of wedding picnic, Ruthe

End of the wedding picnic, Kenneth

Dorothy, with cat

1942

One of the things that I love about this side of my family is that it doesn't matter whether it's the Coopers or the Meekers, there's frequently a cat around.  It makes my huge number of pictures of my own cats look slightly less obsessive.

Cooper family, early 1940s

Will, Harold, Josie, Kenneth, Dorothy and Gladys

Before Cooper

Ruthe, early 1940s, before she married Kenneth