This photograph of my grandfather was taken on April 3, 1940. Formally dressed, even when sitting in a field, as befitting his era. He died before I was born, so I really like having this photograph. My brother, Walter Rees Stromquist, sent it. He has been doing a lot of genealogical research of our family.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Walter Gottfrid Stromquist
This photograph of my grandfather was taken on April 3, 1940. Formally dressed, even when sitting in a field, as befitting his era. He died before I was born, so I really like having this photograph. My brother, Walter Rees Stromquist, sent it. He has been doing a lot of genealogical research of our family.
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Do you know where it was taken? I like this very much and understand your fondness for it. -And so Walter your brother is named for both grandfathers. Good move!
ReplyDeleteYes - my mother's doing. I'm named after both sides, too: Ann for my father's sister and my middle name, Isabel, after my mother's mother. I'm thankful my mother didn't name me after my father's mother, because I would have been Erma Isabel.
ReplyDeleteI think it was taken in Kansas, too. Coincidentally, my father's family lived around Lindsburg, Kansas, a swedish settlement.
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