Wordless Wednesday: Spending Time With Our Oldest Living Family Member
Posted by Liv | Filed under Wordless Wednesdays
Well almost wordless . . . he Chapple ~ Smith Family Dinner my brothers and I hosted on 2 December 2012 was a HUGE success! It was wonderful seeing cousins (along with their adult children who have children of their own) I had not seen in many years. But what made this afternoon such a special [...]
Tags: ancestors, aunt, cousins, descendants, family dinner, family photos, genealogy, grand-daughters, grandchildren, grandmother, great-grandchildren, nephew, niece, wordless wednesdays
Funeral Friday: Mrs. Ella Louise Marshall
Posted by Liv | Filed under Funeral Friday
A complete transcription of her funeral program is below:
Tags: ancestor, aunt, canaan baptist church, edward marshall, Ella Louise Chapple, Ella Louise Marshall, funeral, funeral friday, Houston TX, interment, Memorial Gardens Cemetery, program
Blue Monday: “Woman Killed”
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blue Monday
One of the first items my mother gave me when I sat down to interview her about the Chapple family and her siblings a few years ago was the 1954 newspaper clipping below about the murder of her sister, Estella (Chapple) Thomas. I’ve known about her death since my pre-teen years; she died before I [...]
Tags: aunt, Blue Monday, chapple, Estella Chapple Thomas, news clipping, woman killed
