I have run across the following, to be forwarded to Linda now. First, I think, is the official wedding photo of Larry Dale and Betty June Hupp Koftan, married 23 April 1945 at the Methodist Parsonage in Yankton, SD (which I had forgotten, Yankton being fairly popular in family marriages, Mom and Dad's with Joe and Ella's, later Dennis Jon Ellingson's first).
Next are two photos when Larry was a construction foreman (for Dixie Construction maybe?) and engaged in building the then-new Iowa State Animal Disease Laboratory complex in Ames, Iowa. He is second from the right in the first photo, the next photo obviously an aerial view to show the size.
I cropped off the top photo of several women, interested in the lower one only. Uncle Larry is by the very tall man.
Larry and Betty lived at Phoenix, AZ, one of the many places his work as a stone-setting managerial foreman took them. This is either when Grandma and Grandpa Koftan and Mike Ellingson went to visit and also visited Leon Hammond, Fern's cousin, who had an Arizona date farm or when Grandma and Grandpa were following Larry and Betty around and also lived for a time in Arizona. (Mom mentioned in one of her letters that she was unhappy Grandma liked the Southwest.) I'd guess it's Lake Powell in the background. The first photo has Larry and Betty with Linda in front of the saguaro, Grandpa Laurence Koftan. The second is of David Koftan and Michael Ellingson.
And here is Linda Jean's graduation picture. She'll have to fill in the year.
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