School Days and school pictures

Aren't they good-looking kids?  They were all smart, too, and made good grades.  Did I say?  Their teachers all loved them.  At least in elementary school.  Finally in 1970 we left Buffalo and moved back to Texas.

For a while we stayed at the Atwoods' in Mineral Wells, until I took a decorating job at Sears in Fort Worth and rented a house for us there.  It was at 4404 Wabash, in southwestern Fort Worth.

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.

Our Duplex on Harlem Road in Buffalo, 1968

We are on the steps in front of our duplex on Harlem Road.  The white dog in the picture above is Lily.  She belonged to the people across the street who were good friends of ours.  My dad TR came to visit one time on his way to some trade event for his business.  I was very thin (that's me on the right) and I was working as a decorator for William Hengerer Department Store which I enjoyed a lot.  But I sure missed being home for the kids.