"Before and After" May Kids

Speaking of "Before and After" photos, here are a few of the three May kids through the years.

The dates are "guess-estimated" and probably out of order.  

 

About 1949 Mary seemed to say,  "Oh, please may I have a baby brother or sister?"

This is in 1952 when Philip was still a mere twinkle in Daddy's eye!

  
 

Beware:  

ADULT content (Tee Hee) 

TOPLESS babe

Then we were three.  This was more like 1954.

This is about 1954.  I had forgotten about those curtains.

A busy summer day at play. About 1954

1955  Weren't our blouses charming?

1956  Taken by Mother's childhood friend from North Carolina, Margaret Sparger Honbarrier.  

1958 Christmas.  We cut our own cedar tree every year.

1958 This might have been the day we went to Ed Brown's wedding, where Philip was the cutest Ring Bearer ever!  Grandmother May made our dresses and Phil's adorable suit.

1959 Even then Anita liked clothes with "sissy" stuff designs.

1959 On the steps at Uncle Robert & Aunt Ruth Freeman's house.

Maybe this was 1957 or earlier.  It's obvious by Phil's bare feet that he wasn't going to school with us.

1960 Summer days relaxing on the front porch.

 1960 Oh, how we loved visiting Grandmother Freeman in Dobson, North Carolina.

1961 Sherando Lake?

1962 The Mays at home in the country.

1962 Ooh, la, la

1963 at Monticello.  Mother and Daddy took us on an educational trip/vacation at least once a year, such as the World's Fair in 1964, Niagara Falls, etc.

1963 Sugar Maple Festival in West Virginia

 Our family camping trips were rough for Mother -- all the same cooking to do but in more difficult circumstances.  We were basic campers and slept in tents with cots.  The box on top of the station wagon held our camping gear.  In spite of inconveniences, we shared great adventures and made wonderful memories.

1963 Time for School

1963 Easter Sunday.  That is the dress, jacket and hat I made for a sewing contest.

1964 The corsage might be from my junior prom.

1967 Visiting Grandmother Freeman again.  I also made that green wool suit.

1969 Christmas

1973 Anita's wedding.  She was such a beautiful bride!

1996 Mother's 70th birthday party

1999  Christmas time again.

2005 Mother's 80th birthday party - a big bash in the church's fellowship hall.  About 80 people came.

2010 Our last photo with Mother at the week-long celebration of her 85th birthday at Philip's home in Waxahachie, Texas.

2011 The 3 Mays after Mother's Celebration of Life Service

Here's an overview.  
Click on this and any other photo for a larger version.

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P.S.  I wish we'd done something like I was doing with my grandchildren every year.  It makes viewing the pics more fun to see the people in the same order.  Here's an example.

How blessed we were to grow up in such a wholesome setting, surrounded by people to guide, nurture, encourage, teach and love us.