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The Allen family circa 1986. My grandmother, Anne Allen, is seated in the center in the pink dress. My Aunt Dodie (Doris Howe) is seated on her right and Dad's second wife, LaRae is on her left. My father (John Allen) is on the left. Robert Howe (Aunt Dodie's husband) is on the right. Second row from the left is: Selsa, Steve Castillo, Kathleen Castillo, Brian Wagstrom, my sister Liz Wagstrom, my cousin Connie is looking down to her daughter Katie, her husband Dan Spear is beside her, my cousin Claudia is holding her son Peter and, beside her is her husband, Steve Monson. The last row is Tom Anderson, my sister Roberta (Robbie) Allen Anderson, my cousin Carole Egan and husband.
Here is a picture of Grandma Anne as a young girl with her younger brother George Jensen. .
Chauncey and Editha Ann Whiting were my (third) great grandparents. Chauncey became the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) following the death of Alpheus Cutler. Editha Ann was the daughter of Isaac Morley.
Isaac Whiting was Chauncey and Editha Ann's oldest son. He followed Chauncey as president of the Church.
Sarah Jane (Jennie) Whiting was the daughter of Nelson Talcott and Catherine Louisa Whiting. She married her first cousin, Isaac Morley Whiting and came with him from Manti, Iowa to Clitherall, Minnesota by covered wagon. Together, they raised my grandmother.
Addie Belle Whiting was my great grandmother and the daughter of Isaac and Jennie Whiting. She married George Grinnell but they divorced when my grandmother was only two years old. She later married Alexander (Sandy) Slattery, was widowed when Sandy lost his life saving guests at a hotel and then married Richard Rowe, a minister.
My grandmother, Frances Bonniebell Grinnell. Everyone called her Bonnie. She wrote that, as a child, her dog Sailor saved her life.
Bonnie Grinnell and her beloved aunt, Daisy Evangeline Whiting. Daisy was more of an older sister than an aunt to Grandma. Daisy lived and worked with Grandma in Duluth. On the way back to Clitherall for a visit, Daisy fell ill on the train. She later died, probably of appendicitis. She was only 23 at the time of her death. She never married.
Here is a four generation picture that I found, taken at Clitherall, of Jennie Whiting, Addie Belle Rowe, Bonnie Kirschner and Marjorie Kirschner, my mother.
Mom grew up in a farm in Spring Valley, Wisconsin. They raised sheep there and, as a child, Mom used to sneak lambs up to her bedroom
Grandma (Frances Kirschner) with son Leo Bayless at the Camp Release monument in Montevideo, Minnesota
Four Generations Anne Allen, Kathy Castillo, Selsa Castillo, John Allen,
Julian & Violet Whiting
Vicky and I at the Black Hills with Benjamin Black Elk. We took many trips "out west" as a family. |
