Nanny's mom & Dad, Alma & Walter & Alma's family. The child to Nanny's left is her life-long friend Lempi.
then a jump to Miss Priss, 1924 or 5... so she's 9 or 10, close up below. We might be looking across the street
at debris from the Chatham fire of 1925.
On the back: "after the Chatham fire in April 1925. I was nine. My friend is Helen Norman - we stayed at their
house till the Red Cross got us a house... my Mom & Dad, brothers Bob, Donald & Leslie & me... we were
so lucky to stay there..."
on the back: "1925? Evelyn Hill, Martha Kallio, Lempe Posio, Ruth Hill"
on the back: cousins, 1932 Berdie Hill, Irene Kallio, Viola Kallio, Mardee (Nanny)" Love that car. I
don't know who those Kallio's are. The Hills are Nanny's Mom's side.
1925-26 I recognize Nanny and her brothers... don't know the others. Could be Lempi, second from left, rear.
That car in the background is really early.
Quite a jump... 1932? If so she'd be 16. At a Kallio family reunion some of the relatives spoke of Nanny
growing up as someone a bit older whose room they loved to go to with its movie star posters.
This one's marked 1932
No date on this one,.. maybe a bit later than the bike shot. May be her family home in the background.
This one says 1935 in front of her home at 19. She married in 1937. I think that's the smile
that sunk a thousand ships.
Probably in Chatham mid to late 30s.
No date on this one either but certainly later, more mature. That looks like the entry to the Marquette
post office... be my guess.
One of Nanny and her Father Walter, a very nice man. Don't know who the older woman is nor where it was taken
And that would be Gus, the lil one. Earlier than the one above I think.
Nanny in the kitchen, opening a can of corn she says. An early version of the always evolving kitchen, 1954.
I like this shot... not sure of the date but sure later than the previous. Quite another jump in time.
The date on the license clipped off but close to the above.
This one seems earlier than the license. On the porch of 415 Craig Steet in 1986 or 7.
She writes on the back that she hates this picture, taken at Tynne's and that Tynne should
have been in it too. I like it. The car is one of those gas guzzlers... 1989.
I think she would have liked this one, all dolled up as she would have said, in church... 1985, at the
wedding of daughter Patty i'm told.
This was 1991 or 92. I remember taking it when we were up visiting from Milwaukee, when we
moved there for a year so Cyndia could attend the Montessori Institute. In this shot Nanny is
at her kitchen sink with the view she enjoyed those many years out that window. She told me once
she would check on us out that window when we were sleeping out up in the "hills". She
coud see our fire where we'd be roasting potatoes. I have this in my kitchen so see it every day.
below, a wider view of Nanny in her domain
Nanny "fixing" Kallio's hair... Kallio looks to be enjoying being with Grandma.
A newspaper clipping of Nanny's church group of quilters. The same folks I think were called
upon to provide food for funeral services. The Ester Circle I think Nanny called it. Nanny is
the second figure from the left. She's written the names of the other "ladies". 1976.
The festive Nanny, no date.
A nice couple of action shots, the second kind of pensive. And those hands, arthritic.
A nice shot. She wrote on the back that I had taken it... she seemed to like it.
In Gus' back, well, side yard, where many a gathering has taken place. Nikki leaning out of the pic.
Written on the back, May or June 2001.
Nanny was known to fool around... that Kallio sense of humor.
on the back, "Drawing with Tom". Below another view of her in her usual chair which I
stood sadly staring at when it became empty in 2005.
She's at Gus' place, in the TV room looking toward the kitchen behind her, her walker in view.
I'm so distanced I'm not sure who the child is but Nanny loved those babies.
Some notes I salvaged from her kitchen table.
This final item from the Mining Journal, speaks for itself.
