Our review of the photos of Bob Adema continues.
1930
This is my uncle Charles S. Stansbery, Jr, age approximately 12, with his grandmother, Frances Wilson Osborne. Charles would join the Army Air Corp in 1937 and have a long career before retiring in the early 1960s. He married Anne Smith of Philadelphia in 1943 after having known her only five weeks. Their life long love affair began at the Stage Door Canteen when he was home on leave (his mother, Mayme Osborne and sisters, Louise Stansbery Sherwood and Geraldine Stansbery Holliman Feick, my mother, were living in Pennsylvania at the time). Frankie, the inspiration of this on going blog, seemed to be dressed always in a black dress. She would have been almost 80 years old in this photograph. I believe the picture was taken in Bristol, Tennessee, Mayme's home from 1919 to 1941.
1930s
Below is a photo of Pearl Osborne Wright, my great aunt, and the wife of Dave Wright. They met in Damascus, Virginia and married in Afton, Tennessee in 1912. In 1922, after the death of Dora Kruger Osborne, Pearl and Dave took in and raised Bascomb K., Gladys and Doris Osborne.
1930s
Below, standing on the left of this photo is Howard Adema of Buffalo, New York, who married Gladys Osborne. Howard was helping direct a Civilian Conservation Camp (CCC), a New Deal agency attempting to combat the Depression by employing young men to work in America's forests to develop parks and national forests. The man of the right was his boss. While stationed in Virginia working for the CCC, he met Gladys and the southern girl moved north when they married. Their children are Peggy, Robert and Alan.
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