Our house on Harlem Road

When Hayne and I divorced we lived on Washington Highway which was a short walk from the University campus.  I started working first at Denton, Cottier and Daniels, a music department store in downtown Buffalo, and then for Sears where I learned my decorating career.

When our landlady sold the house on Washington Highway we moved to a very nice duplex on Harlem Road in the same neighborhood.  It was in the same block as Harlem Road Elementary School, where all 3 kids eventually went to school.  We had nice nieghbors, the Millers in the other side of our duplex, and the Boddys, who lived across the street.  Ray Boddy was a professor at the University and there were also boys named Paul Wasik and his cousin Mike Kwasniak, who were Polish and really nice kids.

Mother and Daddy came to visit and we made pictures on the steps of our Harlem Road house.  The white dog in the picture is Lily, who was the Boddy's dog.  I don't know whose cat is in the corner, maybe from next door.

Anne starts elementary school

Anne started school (kindergarten, actually) after 3 years of nursery school at the University of Buffalo nursery school.  So did Bill, and so did Margaret.  It was a really nice pre-school run by the education department at the University.  Then in 1965 Anne went to elementary school.  The first year she was picked to be in a picture in the neighborhood paper with a paper bunny that her class had made.

Wasn't she a beautiful little girl?  We were certainly proud of her.  She was smart, too, and all her teachers loved her.

More About Anne Flavia's first months

These pictures were made after we moved to Buffalo.  We lived in an apartment near the campus for a few months and then we moved to the country.  We house-sat for a professor who was on Sabbatical for that semester. The farm was beautiful, with a big barn.  It was near Lockport, New York, on the Erie Canal.

We had neighbors across the street who had never been more than 25 miles from home.  They were farmers.  The place was beautiful but very cold.

Peter Cottontail at school, 1953

When Anne Flavia was in kindergarten in Buffalo, NY, she was chosen to represent her class in the local paper.  The story was about the Easter bunny that the kindergartners made themselves.

Somebody's Birthday

I am not sure whose birthday it was, but we were at my mother's house in Mineral Wells; I can tell by the sofa fabric.  The party hats are terrific!!

Sorry Anne was looking down, but she had fun I am sure, and looked beautiful as usual.

Anne Flavia in her teen years

Anne Flavia grew up to be a beautiful young woman.   Hunter Tapscott was always a close friend of hers.

The two of them liked to "hang out" at our house with Bill and Margaret and whoever came over.  One time they came home giggling.

  The water tower on Altamesa in southwest Fort Worth sprouted a slogan in red paint:

FREE YOURSELF FROM THE CRIMSON DAWN

Anne, Bill and Margaret

The picture on the right is Anne, Bill and Margaret made shortly after Hayne and I separated. Bill was 5.  Anne was 7 and Margaret was three years old.  

The year was 1967.


Above is a couple of years later.  At this time we were living in Buffalo in the duplex on Harlem Road which was a block from the elementary school they all attended.

I was working at Hengerer's department store in downtown Buffalo as an interior designer.

Christmas 1961: Anne and Bill

 For Christmas in 1961 Bill and Anne got matching red pajamas with Santa hats.  They hung up their stockings, and as you can see at left, Santa brought them both lots of toys.  He filled their stockings, too.

Anne's second birthday

 Anne learned to ride her tricycle on her second birthday.  She got it for her birthday, and by the end of the day she could ride, forward and backward, and turn around.  She was really something!!

The lower picture is Bill.  It was originally a black and white photo but at some point I hand-colored it myself.  Isn't he cute?.  

The front porch at 208 Winspear, fall 1961

We were sitting on the front porch of our house in Winspear, on the Buffalo University campus.  The lady on the left is Charlotte, Claflin.  She was a friend of ours and Bill's godmother when he was christened.  In the first picture you see Hayne with Bill next to him and Anne next to Miss Claflin.  

Hayne took the second picture so I am in it.  I was obviously pregnant with Margaret Ellen Reese who was born January 30, 1962.

Anne Flavia and Bill again

 In the summer of 1961 I was pregnant with Margaret.  Hayne and I decided to go on a second honeymoon to Mexico City.  Anne and Bill stayed with my parents Ann and Bill Atwood in Mineral Wells.  It looks like they may have enjoyed their back yard.

Anne and Bill had pictures made when they were six and four.  That little dress was one of the sweetest dresses Anne ever had.  It was pale blue and green with a ribbon sash and a little bouquet at the waist.

Shen she was in first grade Anne was chosen for a newspaper feature about her school activities. We were proud and kept the newspaper clipping, but it looks like it may have gotten a couple of ink blots or some younger sibling artwork on it.  Anyway here it is….isn't she cute???

Baby pictures of Anne Reese and Bill Reese

We had a next door neighbor who was an amateur photographer.  His name was Bill Woods. His wife was named Jean and  they had a little girl, Shannon, who was close to Anne's age.  We had good times together.

Bill Woods made these pictures in December of 1960.

Anne Flavia and Bill Reese

Anne Flavia seemed to like baby Bill unless he got hold of something that belonged to her.

But she ran away every time I sat down to nurse him.  She had figured out how to unlock the screen door.  Sometimes she would get more than a block away before I could catch up to her.

Early pictures of Anne Flavia, our first baby

Here are some pictures from Anne Flavia's first year.  The one at top was made on Mother and Daddy's front porch at their house in Hillsboro. It includes my brothers Bill and Bob.

Below left is from the reunion of Mother's family in Austin in May of 1959.

Below is me, Mother, holding Anne, Hayne in back and Daddy on the right.

Anne Flavia's first year

Anne was taking her first steps in this picture. She was about 9 months old.  Mother was visiting at the time, and what a good time we had!




Below is obviously her first birthday cake.
I am sure it was homemade; in those days I cooked for our family and would never have brought home a ready-made cake for her...

The first of Hayne and Patsy's children

Our first child was born August 1, 1958.  She was ten days later than the schedule!!!  We named her Anne Flavia after my mother and Hayne's grandmother on his Waring side.

My mother came to Iowa City just before Anne was born to help out and she stayed until Daddy and Bill and Bob all drove up to Iowa City to pick her up and take her home.  

Then we started making plans to move to Buffalo, New York where Hayne's first teaching posotion would be, at the University of Buffalo.  For the move his parents came up and we rented a trailer to pull behind their car with our things in it. I don't think we had a car even then; I think we bought one in Buffalo later on.