Tag Archives: telegrams

The Swedes of Galesburg

By Mark | March 24, 2019

Earlier this evening, I was thinking about my grandmother who passed away this last May, and I decided to scroll back through the photos I’d taken the last time I was with her. Well, there among all of the photos I’d taken of her and Clementine, was this one of the telegram that she’d sent […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1944, 1949 census, Anna Jacobson, Army, Arthur Robert Avery, Atlanta, August Jacobson, Beardstown, census, census data, Dorothy Avery, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, Galesburg, genealogy, Great Depression, Illinois, immigration, John Lambie, Marilyn Ruth Lambie Tercek, Mark's ancestors, marriage, Mimi Dorothy, Pearl Harbor, Robert Avery, Sweden, swell, Violet Jacobson Lambie, WWII | 6 Comments

The passing of my Mimi Dorothy

By Mark | May 17, 2018

Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, the last of my grandparents, passed away yesterday evening at the age of 93 in Lexington, Kentucky, not terribly far from where I was was born 50 years ago, and where she lived for most of her adult life. She was one of my favorite people in the entire world, and […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Beardstown, Bob Avery, cancer, Clementine, Death, Dorothy Avery, family history, family photo, friends who have passed, Galesburg, grandparents, Great Depression, hospice, Illinois, John Lambie, matriarch, Mimi Dorothy, Mothers' Day, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Robert Avery, Shane Land, Sweden, World War II | 18 Comments

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