Treasure Thursday Twins

1935 Hubs and his sister

Aren't they beautiful!

Mary Post Warren

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Super Sister Sunday: The Engel Sisters

Helen, Kathryn, Alice, and Myrtle Engel

Christian Engel and Edith Gibson Engel had 5 children. - 4 girls and 1 baby brother.  These 4 girls and the little brother Johnny, although born in Ness Kansas, grew up in the early part of the 20th century in Long Beach California....each went on to marry and have between 2 and 3 children. Johnny, the baby brother, maried but he and his Mary did not have any children.  He was the ultimate Uncle Johnny to all the nieces and nephews.  We honor this great family who stayed close until the end. I've always felt so proud to be a part of this extended family.  What a loving family they are. 

Mary Post Warren

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Treasure Chest Thursday: Johnny and Mary Engel



1920ish Johnny Engel



1920ish Mary Engel

 Johnny was the only boy of the five children born to Christian and Edith (Burgess) Engel.  Mary, his wife, was born in 1913 and is 98 years old.  I do not have full information on them....as in birth dates, wedding date, Johnny's death date.  I do know they lived their married life in Long Beach CA.  Johnny was the brother of my mother-in-law, Myrtle Engel Warren.  The poem below fits the time-frame of the pictures posted.  it was written by my hub's cousin, whose mother was also Johnny and Myrtle's sister.

One of my fondest memories of Uncle Johnny was how he called me everyday towards the end of my pregnancies asking "are you still around?".....I laugh at that now but I probably didn't think so much of it when I was pregnant and just wanting to get it over.



Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wedneday



2011.4.29 Hubs and the son-in-law
solving the problems of the world
Long Beach California

Mary Post Warren

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Memories - The Runaway

This is the story of one very little boy (about the age of the cutie in this picture)...who decided one day he just had to run away from home because - well who even remembers!?   He diligently packed his bag, and a little food from the kitchen, found a sleeping bag and sauntered out of the back door.  I can't remember what he was upset enough about to decide to 'run away' but we decided to call his bluff and let him go.  We lived in a safe neighborhood and knew he wouldn't go far.  (Today we would NEVER let him go out by himself).

About 15 minutes later the hubs went out to check on him...nope, not in back and not in front either.  But after a short search we found him all set up under the pool table in the garage.  When we asked him why he chose this spot to 'run away' to, he replied "well, you told me I couldn't go across the street by myself and there was no where else to go!' .....gotta love those memories!

The sweety next to him in this picture is his older sister...doesn't she just look tickled pink!

Mary Post Warren

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Happy Birthday to My Father-in-Law



Today would have been my father-in-law's 106th birthday.  I only knew him a little over a year when he passed away in 1966.  He was born July 16, 1905 in Louisville Kentucky to Archie and Emma Warren.  He died July 16, 1965.

I didn't know my father-in-law very well...he died a couple of months after the picture was taken with our first son.  That's how I remember him.  I remember the time I drove our car from Laguna Beach to Long Beach by myself - with a small baby, he thought the hubs was terrible for letting me do such a thing. Women's lib was yet to come!!





Mary Post Warren

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Thursday Treasure - Our First Car

August 1964 Us with our 1964 Dodge Dart

A week before we got married  hubs and I broke off the engagement....long story, not needed to be shared here.  Anyway, to help mend his broken heart he took the rings back, got the money back, and immediately went to the car dealership and put the money down on this brand new beauty! (NOT me, but the car)  A couple days later we were back together and then off to Las Vegas to get married. The funny part about it is the lady at the jewelry store where he purchased and returned my rings had set the rings aside seeming to know he would be back.  Hubs dad loaned him to $$$ to get the rings out of hock. 

The purchase amount on the car was as much as a down payment is now....$2,700.  Amazing - and it was just yesterday that cars were that cheap.

Mary Post Warren

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My Old Kentucky Home



1953 - My Old Kentucky Home

 Archie Hillery Warren was born on March 15, 1874 in Green Kentucky, less than 100 miles from Louisville where he spent the majority of his 102 years.  He died on July 8, 1976.

These pictures were taken in 1953 when hubs and his family drove from Long Beach, California to Kentucky to visit his grandfather.  Some of the original pictures have the word's 'my old Kentucky home' written on the back of them.  According to the hubs this is where his father grew up.  I can see 2 people in the first photo, a man in lower left corner and a woman (I think) on the porch.  The house is/was located in Louisville Kentucky.







 1953 - Ball Hallow Kentucky

 Hubs remembers traveling to Kentucky in this car with his mom and dad and two sisters.  He remembers the trip being long and boring, and only stopping for food and gas. 

I could not find much on the Ball Hallow area of Kentucky except that it's about 300+ miles south east of Louisville. It looks like it may be in the mountains.  From the little I could find by googling it, it seems to be touted as a resort area today.

1953 Left to right: Archie, either Clyde or Clayborn,
Manuel, either Clyde or Clayborn Warren

1953 Back of  "My Old Kentucky Home"










 



 

Mary Post Warren

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Daring to Go Where No (Wo) Man Has Gone Before

With a little trepidation and no fear I dare to go where no (wo)man has gone before  -  tracking the life of one Archie (Archibald?) Warren.  Archie is/was hubs paternal grandfather.  VERY little is known on him - even from his one living daughter. As you can tell by the picture we celebrated his 99th birthday - he lived to be 102.  But NO one can remember dates (all the more reason to date EVERY photo!). He died within three years of this picture being taken...my guess is sometime in the late 1970's or early 1980's. 

I was never blessed with meeting my grandfather-in-law as we were busy raising our family and, well, I guess I just didn't realize how important it was to do it then.  How I wish I could go back in time!

What I know about Archie is minimal - he married (no dates) twice, he had 3 children by each wife.  Hubs grandmother was Emma (no last name, no birth date, no death date).  I guesstimate that Archie and Emma married about 1900-1905 as hub's father was born on April 16, 1905.  This would put Archie (if he married young) born about 1880.  The census records for 1910 though 1930 put him between 1875 and 1878 for a birth date (no actual date given in the records, just age at time census taken).  Fortunately, most of Archie's children had fairly unusual names...the first three were Manuel, Ather, and Clyde.  The second three were Colburn, Otis, and daughter Doris.  According to 1930 census records the mother of the last three children was Lillie (no last name, no birth date, no death date).  When I first started my researching I did not even have names for the wives....no one could remember.  This is hard for me to comprehend since, although my mother did not divulge all her information, what she did tell us was written down and verified.

By using the 1910 to 1930 census records I was able to verify the names and approximate ages of all but Doris.  She was born after 1930 and should show up in the 1940 census - thank God, less than a year to wait for this.  It looks to be that all children were born in Louisville Kentucky.  Census records too show that Archie was born in Kentucky and so were both his wives.

Mary Post Warren

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A Celebration of Life



Janet - still dealing with the shock
of the party

 Janet's birthday is not until April 12th. At that time she will be 80 years old. We held the surprise birthday party/celebration of life party on March 26 mainly because there is a good chance she will be celebrating her 80th birthday with her mom and dad and friends who have gone before her...not on this earth but in her eternal home.  Janet has terminal cancer and has only a few weeks to live.  Family came from all over.  Hubs and I drove from Phoenix to Long Beach.  Hubs is Janet's baby brother, Hubs twin sister, her hubs, and two of their grown children and one of their almost grown grandchildren came with them.  Janet's daughter came from Virginia.  We had a total of 25 friends and family.



Janet and her daughter Ellen

 It was truly a 'celebration of life'...a life that was filled with love, family, friends, over the last 80 years.  A life ending too soon but a life that will continue eternally with her Lord and Savior.  We love you Janet and we look forward to seeing you again someday, after your life on earth has ended.

Mary Post Warren

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St. Patrick's Day - Link

Link was a holiday gift who was given to us by Grandma Warren when the kids were little.  He came out mid March ever year, just for a day or two. 

Then he'd get a special treat and come out around Christmas time...he was small enough we'd could hang him on the tree...and a happy Leprechaun he was.  But, alas, one year he disappeared <gasp>!  We don't know if he ran away or if, worst yet and what we suspect, he accidentally got tossed out with the live Christmas tree. Or did Santa steal him...NAH, he wouldn't do that!!!  But he was gone and it seems forever and we miss him like the dickens.  And still talk about him every year.

Grandma Warren also had a story to tell about Link to the kids.  Link always seemed to be on some kind of adventure or getting into some kind of trouble.  To this day, all in their 40's, they talk about Grandma's stories of Link.  Maybe one of them would be so kind as to write and update to this posting telling of some of Link's (mis)adventures?
This little guy reminds me of Link - he resides at the school where I work and he comes out every year, just about this time of the year.  He's twice the size of the original Link but he's just as cute! The kids love him, just as our kids loved our Link!

Mary Post Warren

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Birthday Wishes

Myrtle Frances Warren

Today would have been my mother-in-law's 102nd birthday.





Born: December 21, 1909

Died: September 9, 2001

Long Beach, California

Thank you for being an awesome mother, wife, mother-in-law, grandmother. You were the best!

Mary Post Warren

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Postcards from Australia - Part 4

Hub's father was stationed on the U.S.S. Idaho from 1925 to 1929.

Manuel Howard Warren Sr. (AKA Howard) had the opportunity to travel the world will serving in the Navy.  On one of this trips he was in Sydney, Australia.  Recently - in three different posts - I shared unused postcards he had either bought or received from someone while he was visiting Sydney, Australia.  

These are the last in a series of 11 postcards - these two are from south Australia and from Queensland Australia.

See also:

Postcards from Australia 

Postcards from Australia - Part 2



Postcards from Australia - Part 3

For those interested in the Warren side of the family I hope to start blogging about them after the first of the year.

Mary Post Warren

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Postcards from Australia - Part 3





 My husband's father was stationed on the U.S.S. Idaho from 1925 to 1929.

Manuel Howard Warren Sr. (AKA Howard) had the opportunity to travel the world will serving in the Navy.  On one of this trips he was in Sydney, Australia.  Recently - in two different posts - I shared postcards he had either bought or received from someone while he was visiting Australia.  These are the final three postcards from Sydney.

The first two post can be read by following the links below:

Postcards from Australia 

Postcards from Australia - Part 2

Mary Post Warren

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Veterans Day 2010 - Thanks to everyone!

To all those who served in the United States Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and any other branch of the service I salute you!  Some of my family members who graciously served their country, some drafted, some volunteered - include 2 brothers, my father, 1 son, and various ancestors though out the years.

Some of those from my family I honor today are:

1. Robert Bernard Gleason aka Bernardum Robertum Gleason (son of Thomas Gleason and Hedvig Motzko) Killed during World War II (He would be my 2nd cousin)

2. Robert Max Priser (3.20.1923 to 10.20.1944) - son of Fred Earl Priser/Velma Kime, grandson of Benjamin Frank Priser/Nancy Schrock, great grandson of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock.  Killed in Italy during World War II (He would be a second cousin)





3. Hays Coulter Post (2.15.1913 to 2.25.1987) - son of Orvey Post and Bess Coulter Post.  Served in the Army, honorable discharge October 1941. (My father)



1962 - James J. Post
(my big brother)



4. James Joseph Post (7.9.1942 to 12.27.1993) - son of Hays Coulter Post/Margaret Troyer.  Retired U.S. Air Force 1982.  Served in Viet Nam. (My brother)



5. H. Christopher Post (birth date withheld) son of Hays Coulter Post/Margaret Troyer

                                                                                         

Manue H Warren (Left)
1925-1929

6. Manuel H. Warren (4.16.1905 - 8.22.1965) - son of Archie Warren. U.S. Navy (1925-1929)

Howard Warren
1957-1961

7. M. Howard Warren (birth date withheld for privacy) - son of Manuel H.  Warren/Myrtle Engel.  U.S Army (Germany 1957-1961)

8. William H. Warren (birth date withheld for privacy) - son of Howard Warren/Mary Post. MU.S. Army (Germany 1983-1991). Served in Persian Gulf

Thank you to these special people and to all who served our country is such a self-less way.





Mary Post Warren

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Postcards from Australia - Part 2

This is part two of a 3 to 4 part series of postcards that were in a collection of hubs dad's that the hub's inherited many years ago. See the first set here. Watch next week for additional postcards.

 Photos for the postcards were taken between 1830 and 1855 in Sydney, Australia.  They were purchased by my Father-in-Law, Manuel Howard Warren Sr. (AKA Howard) sometime in the late 1920s or early 1930s either while on a tour of duty with the U.S. Navy or on a visit.

Mary Post Warren

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Dedicated to Ceasar

Ceasar (on left) - photo taken 2005)

Ceasar

A rescued dog adopted by us 

May 1997 - October 31, 2010

We loved you Ceasar and we'll miss you greatly.

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
 
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... 

Author unknown...

Mary Post Warren

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Postcards from Australia

These postcards were in a collection of hubs dad's that the hub's inherited many years ago. There are about a dozen of these so I will just post 3-4 at a time.  Watch next week for additional postcards.

Manuel Howard Warren Sr. aka Howard was in the navy in the 1920's and 1930's....his travels took him to Australia where he apparently purchased or received these postcards:

As you can see these artwork/photography on these date back to the mid-1800's.  The set has never been used (mailed, written on) and are in new condition.  I hold the originals on these.



Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday (Almost) - Happy Birthday Robert



Happy Birthday to our baby boy! Hope you have an AWESOME day - we love you!



Robert - age 2



Robert - age 7

Robert  - age 21

Robert - age 41



Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday

                                                  Manuel 'Howard' Warren (1905 - 1965)

Myrtle Frances Engel Warren (1905 - 2001)

Taken in about 1928 in Long Beach California

Howard was in the navy at the time of this photo,

Myrtle is wearing her brother's Army uniform.

Mary Post Warren

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