Adema, Wright and Osborne Photographs

by Glenn N. Holliman

2010

Rob Adema took this photograph of his parents, Gay and Bob Adema along with yours truly (far left) at their summer home over looking Lake Erie. We are overlooking Cedar Bay at Pt. Claborne, Ontario. Bob's parents, Howard and Gladys Osborne Adema, purchased the home in 1940. We spent much of our day together, not just eating the Western New York favorite - beef on wick - but reviewing old photographs.

Photo by Rob Adema

1940s

Is Bob in the photo below? Back row left to right are Flea and Doris Osborne Akers, then Gladys Osborne Adema, the girl is Virginia Osborne, the daughter of Bascomb K. Osborne (in the Navy uniform) and his wife Edith, far right, back row. Now I am on uneasy ground. I think front row looking down is Phyllis Akers, then Bob Adema (?), Bascomb K. and then Peg Adema Noeltner.

Where and when was this taken? Gladys and Doris are my mother's first cousins, all having grown up in the same area of southwest Virginia and upper East Tennessee in the 1920s and 30's.

From Phylllis Akers, Sept. 14, 2010: The picture of all of us was taken in front of Mom and Dad's house in Damascus. The people are: Back row, l to r - Flea Akers and Doris Osborne Akers, Gladys Osborne Adema, Edith Osborne - Bascom's (Bab) wife. 2nd row: Phyllis Akers, Bob Adema, & Peg Adema. Front, kneeling: Bascom (Bab) Osborne with daughter Gini. Don't know the date of that but looks like I'm sad that everyone is leaving.

Yet More Adema and Stansbery Photographs

by Glenn N. Holliman

More photos from the collection of cousin Bob Adema.

1940s?

Left is my Mother's first cousin, Bascomb K. Osborne and on far right is his father, my Great Uncle Bascomb Osborne. Bascomb's second wife, Ada stands behind Bascomb K's daugher, Virginia (Ginnie). The photo was probably taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s at the Osborne home in Owenboro, Kentucky. Bascomb was a Ford manager. The younger Bascomb, Uncle Bab as he was known to his nieces and nephews, had an outstanding career in the U.S. Navy. All in this photo are now deceased.

1930s

Below is another photo of Frances Wilson Osborne, my generation's Great Grandmother. As usual she is dressed in black. Whose front porch is this? I assume this was made in either Damascus, Virginia or Bristol, Tennessee. She often wears a wide black ribbon around her waist in photographs.