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