Christmas visit with Naine

Took her a home made enchilada

Elizabeth's recital..

All photos were taken by Robert on his cell phone

Julie was first and played a Mozart from Don Giovanni.  

Martin played Maple Street Rag, Scott Joplin

June Cheim saying she was going to play a medley of Chopin

Elizabeth presented awards and gifts

 

Everyone did a wonderful job 

 

Grandma's

 June and Elizabeth

Elizabeth had tables set out in the patio with cookies and punch

an enjoyable evening!!!!!!!

some shots from Emily's wedding...

from Susan's photo albums...

my God daughter Susan

Patty's photos on facebook today...

A blast from the past...Frank Bumb, Dan, Lee Silva, Sis, Fred, Patty Bumb

Joey Bumb, Carrie, Grammie, Cassie

Marie, Grammie, Patty

Carrie, Cassie

Gwen R I P

Jim wrote me an e mail saying that Gwen died this morning. Her services will be held on Friday Feb 12 at San Luis Obispo.

We had a lot of fun together....Bud and Gwen, George and I ...through the years


Click Here: Check out "Gwen Allen"
http://www.fortunefamily.org/dellspage/gwenallen.html

.."won't keep"...

My grandmother, Anna Christina Michelsen Cook, was sent this telegram on the death of her father, Otto Michelson.

Otto became a teamster and had a span of five mules and a horse he called Nellie. A mule stepped on his toe and blood poisoning set in. His leg was amputated to the hip in an effort to save his life, but he died at Battle Mountain, Nevada on June 5, 1890.


OTTO MICHELSEN
Otto Michelsen, born in Schleswig, Denmark, was a sailor who came to San Francisco in 1847 and remained until gold was discovered in 1848. He then came inland and mined for a while at Dutch Flat on the South Fork. He married Anna Christina Beekholz, also a native of Denmark, who had two daughters, Camilla Teresa and Olivia, by a previous marriage.
Otto and Anna had twins on March 14, 1855, George P. and a daughter who died at birth. Anna Christina was born on October 12, 1857 and within a month after childbirth the mother Anna, died. She is buried at Gold Hill Cemetery, Gold Hill, California. Otto, unable to care for his small children allowed George to be raised by the Harford family of San Luis Obispo and Anna Christina by Anna Rebecca Hahn who later married Peter Singer who was a lawyer, teacher and Justice of the Peace in Lincoln, California

Anna Christina was born to Otto and Anna Christina Michelsen, natives of Denmark, in the Mt. Pleasant District, Placer County, California, on October 12, 1857.

Anna Christina had one older brother and two older half-sisters. Her mother died the month after her birth, and she was nursed for a time by an Indian squaw who had lost her child. She was cared for by Mary and George Allen, friends of the family, (who later to become the grand parents-in-law of her daughter Nellie), and the Burdge family. (Nellie was later to work for the Burdge's grandson, a printer.) When she was six months old Anna Christina was taken by Anna Rebecca Hahn, who later married Peter Singer, the first teacher in Lincoln. Anna was know at different periods in her life as Anna Christina Hahn, Singer, until she ran away to marry Baron Francis Cook on August 20, 1878.

cousins from South Dakota

Vera and Martin Nelson, Angie & Kay will be here for a

potluck at 2 p.m. Sunday, along with the Fortune family
and some of the other Fortune/Norbery/Kelly clans. picture taken a few years ago
Angie Nelson is here for a week for a banking seminar
this picture taken a few years ago

Raggedy Ann and Andy

I wanted a couple of dolls for the kids to play with so bought these. For some reason they never played with them. They sit in the room where the kids sleep when they come over. I guess they were more popular in days gone by. sigh...

Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair. The character was created in 1915 as a doll, and was introduced to the public in the 1918 book Raggedy Ann Stories. A doll was also marketed along with the book to great success. A sequel, Raggedy Andy Stories (1920) introduced the character of her brother, Raggedy Andy, dressed in sailor suit and hat.

Gruelle created Raggedy Ann for his daughter, Marcella, when she brought him an old hand-made rag doll and he drew a face on it. From his bookshelf, he pulled a book of poems by James Whitcomb Riley, and combined the names of two poems, "The Raggedy Man" and "Little Orphan Annie." He said, "Why don’t we call her Raggedy Ann?"

Marcella died at age 13 after being vaccinated at school for smallpox without her parents' consent. Authorities blamed a heart defect, but her parents blamed the vaccination. Gruelle became an opponent of vaccination, and the Raggedy Ann doll was used as a symbol by the anti-vaccination movement.