My first year

I was Thurston and Ann's first baby, born September 9, 1938.  Mother never had a formal portrait made of herself with me, but there are a handful of snapshots from that time.

For the first years of their marriage Thurston and Ann lived in south Texas, where he was sent by Texas Power & Light Company to sell appliances. Some of the  towns we lived in were Flatonia, Refugio, and Aransas Pass.  Mother was happier then than at any time in her life, she told me.  

The little dog in the lower picture was named Frito.  That's right....because she loved the little corn  chips that were already being sold, in some parts of Texas, in 1938.