Dad's Merchant Marine Days Part 4 Family Photos

Family photos were affixed throughout dad's 'Merchant Marines' album.  They followed no chronological order and I've put them basically in the same order here as they were in the album.  Identities provided are either known by me or they were included on the reverse sides of the photos.  Years were included on some photos and a couple others were estimates shared with me by family members.

My dad about 1945

Russell Westcott 1944

Vivian Eleanor Schnack Cope

Vivian Eleanor Schnack Cope

Marie Linnaberry

Marie lived next door to Grandma and Grandpa Schnack in Milford.  It's my understanding that my father had somewhat of a 'thing' for her before he met my mom.  Marie was no relation to the family but I included the photos because they were in the album.

Marie Linnaberry

Marie Linnaberry

Edward and Daisy's 25th Wedding Anniversary

This photo would have been made about 1948.  Kneeling in front from left to right is Jochim Walter Schnack, Edward Alexander Schnack, Katharine Rose Schnack Hammon, Anna Catharine Ella Schnack Mower, Helen Schnack Westcott.  Standing from left to right is Charles Mower, Olive Letha Rose Schnack, Edward Schnack, Jr., Marcia E. Schnack Hodges, Daisy D. Montana Schnack, and Marianna Ellen Schnack Hodges.

Vivian Eleanor Schnack Cope

Charles Elbert Rose and Walter J. Schnack 1944

Charles Elbert Rose 1948-1949

Elizabeth Ann Olmsted Rose 1952-1954

Charles Elbert Rose and Elizabeth Ann Olmsted Rose 1952-1954

Charles Elbert Rose 1952-1954

Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Is this Katharine Rose Schnack Hammon?

Do you know who this is?

Do you know this dog or this toddler?

Olive Letha Rose Schnack with Thomas Alan Cope        August 1952

Vivian Eleanor Schnack Cope with Thomas Alan Cope  August 1952

Harry Donald Cope with Thomas Alan Cope   November 1952

Harry Donald Cope and Vivian Eleanor Schnack Cope

Katharine Rose Schnack Hammon

Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Edward Alexander Schnack

The following is a group photo and I've included a scan of the reverse side of the image.  The names written on the reverse side have no meaning to me.  Does anyone know who they are?

I recognize Harriet Julia Camp Baird on the far left and Milton George Camp is peaking around from behind a young woman standing beside Harriett.  The tall man is Leonard George Camp and the woman on the far right is Beatrice May Rose Camp.  Any help with other identifications is appreciated. 

Written on the reverse side is the location of the photo.  Secret Caverns and Howe's Caverns at Howe's Cove were, and still are, popular recreation areas in Schoharie County, New York.  I linked to both because I thought this group might have visited one or the other while in Howe's Cove, New York.

Beatrice May Rose Camp

I recognize a John Deere tractor when I see one but does anyone know whose house is in the background?

Lorraine 1945 

I have a Lorraine Hastings (born in 1936) in the family tree.  She is the sister of Donald Hastings who married our cousin Doris (Rose) Hastings. Could this be the same Lorraine?

left to right: Vivian Eleanor Schnack Cope, Edward Alexander Schnack, Walter J. Schnack 1940

Doris Van Husen 1946 

I don't have Doris Van Husen in my family tree.  Can anyone tell me if, or how, she's related?

top photo from left to right: Jochim Walter Schnack, Olive Letha Rose Schnack, Vivian Eleanor Schnack Cope, Edward Alexander Schnack in Montreal, Canada

Harriett Julia Camp Baird

Milton George Camp

Milton George Camp

Leonard George Camp and Beatrice May Rose Camp

Jochim Walter Schnack

Updated 9 Mar 2014, 1:41pm, with additonal positive identifications.

Still more pictures

These are more pictures found loose in that same box as the previous pictures.  They cover a wide variety of years and subjects.  Some are identified while others are not.  If you can help with the identifications of the unknowns, please leave a comment.

Della Cole Owens Young

Della was my maternal grandfather's aunt.  She and her first husband had a farm in Milford.  My grandfather stayed with them for a short time when he was growing up.  When she and her second husband got to an age that they could not run the farm, they sold it to my grandfather but continued to live in the house which was divided to suit two families.  

 Thelma Ferguson Pidgeon

Thelma was my maternal 1st cousin 2x removed.  She lived her entire life in Oneonta, Otsego County, New York.

 Elmer again!  He's posing, on 5 March 1945, with three unknowns at the Griffith Park Observatory.  You can see the Hollywoodland sign in the hills behind his head.

 Beatrice May Rose Camp with Clarence Darling.

Leonard George and Beatrice May Rose Camp.

Beatrice May Rose Camp, Florence Alice Rose Lawler, Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Beatrice May Rose Camp

Beatrice May Rose Camp and Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Beatrice May Rose Camp

 The people in the background look like Jack and Florence Rose Lawler.

 Above and below is Beatrice May Rose Camp with unknown fellow nursing students.

Beatrice May Rose Camp 1937

 Beatrice May Rose Camp with Seward Hager Burgett 1937

 Beatrice May Rose Camp, Elbert Rose, Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Sisters Olive, Florence, and Beatrice Rose with maternal grandmother, Alice Clayton More.

Children of Obed and Luella Cure.  Obed bought Elbert's farm in Pine Hill.  From left to right are Pearl, Everett, and Frasier Cure.

Doris is in the three pictures above, possibly the fourth picture as well.  Who Doris is, I don't know.  Do you?

Gladys on the boat dock.  No, I do not know who Gladys is or if she is family or friend.  This photo, and the one below, was made at Caroga Lake, in Fulton County, at New York State's Adirondack State Park.