Frank and Laura with best man Ray McGrellis and maid of honor Margaret Honor
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Frank Rooney and Laura Larson married June 29, 1926
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Father Douglas McNeill
Leo's godfather
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Frances Rooney, 21 months old
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Leo Rooney, 6 months old |
Ray and Matilda Jones in Atlantic City with Mary and baby Raymond
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Mary Jones
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Leo Rooney in the blue coat that was passed back and forth among Jones and Rooney children
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Leo and Frances Rooney
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Mary Larson, Fritz Wirtz wedding, Sept 25, 1930
Best man Lawrence Larson, Maid of honor Theresa Honor
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Aunt Annie Rooney holding baby Mary Rooney, about 1932
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Grandma Landers and her grandchildren, Frances, Billy, Mary and Leo Rooney.
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Leo and Frances Rooney, First Communion. Laura's wedding veil cut down.
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1937 - Ma Larson and her "children". Back row: Mary, Matilda, Lawrence,
Laura, Joseph. Seated: Willie, Johanna, Ma, Thomas |
Floyd and Minnie Landers with grandchildren. Frances, Leo and Billy on lower step, Mary on
Floyd's lap.
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Laura and Mary on MaryLen houseboat, 1937
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Laura, Frank, Mary Larson Wirtz, 1937
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Frank holds open the jaws of the alligator(?) while Laura and Mary pose.
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Leo Rooney, altar boy at Holy Rosary Church, Scranton, Pa.
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5th grade at Holy Rosary school, Scranton. Leo Rooney in last desk 2nd row from right.
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Mary Rooney, First Communion
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Cousins the day Gallaghers left for the West in 1938. Back row, Frances, Aleatha,
Leo, Raymond, Mary, Elizabeth. Front row, Mary and Billy
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Butte, Montana 1939.
Back row: Ella and Tom Curtis, Laura Rooney, Margaret Reap:
Front row: Mary, Leo, Frances Rooney
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Log ranch house built by Tom and Lawrence Larson in Myrtle Point, Oregon
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Davenport family visits
1939
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Leo Rooney on horse. Mary, Bucky McCall and Uncle Leo standing by.
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Leo and Johanna Gallagher with Rooney kids. Driver crossed the country in a covered
wagon as a child.
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Uncle Leo Gallagher and (top to bottom) Mary, Frances and Leo Rooney.
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Rooneys and 5 yr old Bucky McCall. Bucky in charge of the horse.
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Frank at Trainman's clambake while family is away. He said he was helping to serve
it.
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Thomas Curtis grave in Butte, Mont. Aunt Ella sent the photo so we could recognize it if
we visited. We did.
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Leo Rooney, Grandma Larson, Billy Jones.
Note the spruce tree in background. Mary Larson planted it in 1920's. Today (1998) it is
the only remaining evidence of the Larson homestead.
Revisited in 2001 -- it has fallen
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Marian Larson, 1936
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Joseph Larson 1940 Teacher Mt. Penn HS
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Marian Larson taken about 1940 when she was living in Los Angeles.
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War Years |
High Works house. Aleatha Jones, Lawrence Larson, Leo and Laura Rooney in back row, Mary
Rooney and Joann Moyles in front
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Johanna and Leo Gallagher. Written on back, in Johanna's writing, 'Mrs Reynolds said to
"burn them up." But Leo said "That's us!" Mr Poole took them while we
were there.' About 1941
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Elizabeth, Johanna, Leo Gallagher in Yoemalt, Bainbridge Island, Washington, about 1942
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Alfred Smith and Marian Larson - This picture was taken in March 1942
probably at Oxnard, California. Al was teaching Army pilots at Oxnard Army Air Field. I
think they had just met.
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Ma Larson hoeing corn on her 80th birthday. 1943
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Ma with her daughters, Laura, Johanna, Mary and Matilda
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Ma with our dog Peanuts
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Raymond Jones II
Click here to read his letter telling of his
first solo flight in 1943. It is Letter #49 in Laura Rooney's "Blue Book"
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Mary and Frances Rooney in Seattle, 1944, with proud purchase of new suitcase in
anticipation of returning East.
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Al and Marian (Larson) Smith. April 1945 in the Rose Room of the Palace Hotel in San
Francisco. Al had just returned from six months of duty in Hawaii on PT boats. He was back
in San Francisco for a transfer to navigator on Navy transport planes.
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Ma Larson and Elizabeth Gallagher, 1945. Elizabeth was on her way from France going home
to Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was in the 50th general hospital which had been
formed in Seattle.
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