Uncle Glen first married a Bruner from Bloomfield, an old family name there, only disappearing recently. Here is what I think must be their wedding picture, a very large one. It was usual in those days for the man to sit and the wife to stand in family photos.
I included the following for its label, "Mabel and Socrates," the cat's name definitely indicating the family education.
Mom spells her name Mabel, but I was going by Gram's (Fern's) writing. They had a son, Darrell, but Mabel died when he was very young, and Glen's second wife, Paula, cared for him and an adopted daughter, Patricia, dealt with in another entry. Mom (Velma) disliked cousin Darrell as much as she liked cousin Donley, which is apparently why she has no family data on Darrell, but we do have some charming baby and boyhood photos, the ones below. He was very spoiled, I guess, probably because his mother died when he was an infant or toddler.
I met him once at Uncle Glen's when he came back to Randolph, when the family was very proud to boast of him because he was a comptroller or something akin for Darryl Zanuck, a powerful Hollywood legend coincidentally born in Wahoo, Nebraska, who worked for Warners, then formed Twentieth Century with partners, absorbing bankrupt Fox for 20th Century Fox. Darrell sported a big sterling silver belt buckle given to him by Zanuck, which impressed me, a little boy. Proud and glib, as I remember him, but that could apply to any longtime Californian returning to Nebraska, couldn't it?
That's a genuine cafe chair, but I've never seen another sized for an infant. That's the kind of chair Mary's Cafe had in Center and the Corner Drug had in Bloomfield when I was growing up.
Note those high-topped shoes.
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