It’s funny, this picture came up with Juanita Cheuvront filled into the title when I added it, but the actual name in my files is Frank, Tootie, Howard, and girlfriend. I have no idea where the name Juanita Cheuvront came from. This is one of those things that remind me that it’s always good to write things down when they happen! In this case I should have recorded the source of the name when I found it out. Is it written on the back of the picture, in the album, or did one of my relatives tell me. Without source information it’s the equivalent of ‘iffy’ information. It makes a lot more work to verify the info.
My Aunt Tootie is still around and may be who gave me the information. If I get a chance I’ll have to ask her. I did just google Juanita Cheuvront name and Danville Illinois. A Michael showed up who graduated from Danville High school. He is listed as 57 so it seems there is a large age difference between him and what my Uncle Howard would have been. My Uncle would have been 18 in 1940 – where Michael was a 1973 graduate, so he is definitely young enough to be my uncles children’s age. If he is a sibling of Juanita there was a huge age difference, more even than my dad and his siblings.
As the extra person isn’t one of my family members, for genealogy it isn’t really required to know who the extra is, but the more information the better – otherwise information gets lost over time.
This is a picture of the US Senate Republican Policy Committee. It’s funny that I can quickly pic my Aunt Dorothy out even with a photo so many people.
I found this information about the committee:
About the Republican Policy Committee
The United States Senate Republican Policy Committee (RPC) was established in 1947. Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming serves as its 15th Chairman and is the fourth ranking member of Republican leadership in the United States Senate.
The committee advances Republican policies by providing positions on legislation, floor debate, and votes. RPC also provides in-depth analysis on specific issues, policy solutions and alternatives, and strategic guidance. We also provide a recorded vote analysis and run the internal RPC TV broadcast.
In the tradition of past chairmen, the RPC provides a forum for Republican Senators for policy discussions. This is principally carried out through the weekly policy lunch. RPC also hosts Republican Staff Directors and Legislative Directors to discuss the Senate committees and floor agenda.
RPC’s origins go back to 1947 and its founding chairman, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The Committee was created following a bipartisan proposal by the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress in 1946. The RPC was originally composed of nine Republican Senators. They provided all Republican senators with a description of meeting discussions and the chair would hold press availability following the meeting. Policy discussions now include all Republican senators.
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Source: http://www.rpc.senate.gov/about
I suspect this picture is from the late 60s. What I found interesting was that in the pictures in the gallery on their site there are no women, yet this picture shows several women involved (including my aunt). – I’m not trying voicing an opinion on this either way, but did find it interesting. Really it shows the difference in the times. When my aunt was born women didn’t have the right to vote. In the picture I actually only see 4 Men total and 1 African American. I suspect the picture is of the Republican Women’s Group that visited the committee. – Possibly from Illinois, as Percy was an Illinois Senator and my aunt was involved in the republican party in Illinois. I remember my aunt running for Circuit Clerk when I was in grade school. For some reason I think it was the same year our classes got to vote on the state bird. It’s funny the things you remember!
The picture appears to be signed by Charles Percy, a former senator that took office in 1966. (Wikipidia)
Edgar C. Richter Oakwood – Edgar C. Richter, 97, or Oakwood Route 2, died at 1:37 pm Sunday (Dec. 15, 1991) at USMC, Logan Campus.
He was born November 2, 1894, in Oakwood Township, the son of Abraham Lincoln and Arilla Pate Richter. He was married to Sophia Melton. She preceded him in death. He was a truck farmer and also worked at United Electric Coal Company.
He is survived by: three sons, Arnold Richter of Fairmount, James Ivan Richter of Chemsford, Mass., and William E. Richter of Petaluma Calif, a daughter, Mary Kathleen Krumholz of Bartonville, Illinois: and several grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one son, Richter Thomas Richter, nine brothers and sisters.
His interests were traveling and hunting.
Services 1 Pm Wednesday at Johnson-Lakeside Chapel in Oakwood. Internment: Oakwood Cemetery. Officiating, Rev. Scott Englehart. Visitation: One hour prior to services a the funeral home.
My dad was in the reserves shortly before I was born. This is a small picture of him I have in my files. I think it’s the only one I have of him in uniform. I remember my dad never wanting to camp out and he would tell stories about finding snakes in your boots when he was in the reserves. His other comment was always “We live in the woods, why would we want to go sleep in it”.
I’m still not big on camping, as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that as a child we had plenty of chances to practice camping out. Storms where we had no power for a week. No power meant no water, no water meant no toilets. Living in a subdivision there is nothing like living in the country. Even when the power goes out we can flush the toilets and run water. Imagine having to melt snow to get water to flush the toilet. Even the camping sites I’ve seen now have access to regular bathrooms.
Now my parents have a generator, but I remember my dad doing his best to work around by hooking a tractor up in some way to run a few little things. We always had a huge gas and a huge diesel tank in our yard for extra fuel.
After a few years we swapped to heating the house with wood, wood was always something that there was plenty of around the yard. We had our own log splitter run by a tractor and would have to work to split wood most of the summer to have it for winter. The wood burning furnace was hooked into the duct work with a blower (blower didn’t work with the power out). We also had a fireplace and a wood burning stove though. For long power outages we could move down and sleep in the living room to be near the heat.
When my dad’s brother Howard needed help, my dad and his family stepped forward to help. My dad is in the combine in the picture.
