I know I said I would do stories from my own growing up and from our children, but I couldn't resist this.  This is a picture of "Aunt Merline" (Stradling) when she was a child...one of Rose's sisters who had a role in raising my Uncle Bill (see posts from early 2017):  Merline is on the viewer's right, sister Myrtle in the middle.

Also this came up last week about one of my Grandma Montague (Estella Gertrude Jackman Montague) about one of her loveliest sisters, Amy Diantha...very poignant:

 Amy was my Grand Mother. Sadly she passed before I was born. My father is John Sherman Dean.. He told us that he was really sad when his mother passed. He was only 10 yrs old. He also said she was born with the ability to see the future. She was clairvoyant. I too have some of her abilities. I would of loved to know her personally I look at her pictures and I see a strong lovely woman.. When my Grandpa asked her to marry him, she told him, She would marry him but will never live to raise him a daughter. She had 3 boys and then Amy came along and my dear Grandmother passed.... I am sure she was so sad....