Junior, Danny, Darlene, Dale, Doris, Donald, Delbert
The first photo was taken in 1927 on Old Creamery Road in Penn Township, south of Dexter, Iowa.
Ages 2, 4, 6, 6, 8, 9, almost 12.
The second was taken on July 4, 1938, when Don was home on leave. Dexter, Iowa.
Ages almost 13, 15, 17, 17, 19, 20, 23.
Leora’s Letters: The Story of Love and Loss for an Iowa Family During World War II is available from Amazon in paperback and ebook, also as an audiobook, narrated by Paul Berge.
It’s also the story behind the Wilson brothers featured on the Dallas County Freedom Rock at Minburn, Iowa. All five served. Only two came home.
I love seeing the changes in such “before and later” photos!
They’re even in the same order! Just discovered it while working on the second draft “Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression.” (working title)
It was a fantastic discovery!!
Precious pictures to treasure for all of us.
Bless you for that comment.
What great images, Joy! Love that they did them both in the same lineup.
Fabulous and fun to see them all lined up like this.
Guess Danny didn’t like his hairdo in the first pic! Both fun and poignant knowing what you have storied to us.
He was yawning! Later that same month that little guy would undergo a mastoidectomy. https://joynealkidney.com/2018/03/09/danny-wilsons-mastoid-operation/
Aww, meant no harm. My Nana had that awful surgery too. The problem had lingering effects life long.
His hearing was rechecked when he joined the Army Air Force, but they let him continue as a cadet. He’s the brother who was lost in a P-38 in Austria.
If only it had disqualified him, but his story indicates he would have pressed. Bless his heart.