Doiron, Due, Ivy old, old family photos

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

~Gail Lumet Buckley

August, 1947

William Harvey Due
Delores Lynn Due
Opal Marie (Ivy) Due

Opal Marie Ivy
&
G'pa Ivy

circa 1916
William H. Due
(lynn's dad)

and son of)
Emma (Bolton) Due
&
Ralph Leroy Marion Harvey Due
circa 1958

Opal Marie Ivy
and Conway Ivy

Back row:
Tom, Conway, Elsie (Gray) Ivy
Front row:
Opal (Lynn's mom), Tom's dad, Eva, Tom's dad's wife (step-grandma)

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

~George Eliot

The stern looking man pictured on the right was Elsie's father; Elsie did not like him; she said he worked her poor, sweet "mommy" to death; Elsie was a young teen when her mother died and her father married her mother's sister (might have been half- or step-sister). Elsie always called her "that woman" or "that mean, old woman."

And on the left, that's Elsie May Susan (Gray) Ivy between her four brothers, circa 1950.

[I will research and find Mr. Gray's full name and the names of Elsie's brothers. The only one I knew was Onus, 2nd from the right.]

Family quarrels
are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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