Mamie (Baker) Meyers and Her Family

 My great aunt Mamie (Baker) Meyers.
She was a younger sister of my great grandmother, Nora Belle (Baker) Saunders.
Mamie was born Jan 1, 1895 in Glendale, Montana,
to Martha (Woodside) Baker and Fred Baker.

There is no date on this photo, but she appears to be in her thirties or early forties.

 This is a photo of Mamie with her first husband, Joe Michels.
No one can remember why Joe and Mamie's marriage ended.

Mamie with her son Kenneth Michels.

Kenneth died in childhood from polio and was never spoken of

after Mamie married her second husband Henry Meyers.

There is no date on the photo.

Mamie again with her son Kenneth.

There is no date on the photo.

Kenneth Michels.
There is no date on the photo, but a note on the back
places the location as Neptune Beach, Alameda, CA.

Another photo of Kenneth Michels, in childhood.

Mamie with my father, George Marion Saunders.

Mamie and her husband, Henry Meyers, owned the house
across the street from my paternal grandparent's house,
at 624 46th Street, in Oakland, CA.
In her long life, she was "Aunt Mamie" to both her nephew (my grandfather)
Delbert "Bud" Saunders, and my father, George Marion Saunders.
There is no date on the phot, but I estimate it was taken about 1944 or 1945,
when my father was three or four years old.
A note on the back of the photo places the location as 46th Street, Oakland, CA.

Mamie and Henry lived well into their seventies.
She was alive when I was a child old enough to remember her.
I can recall visiting their home when I was around five years of age (approx. 1968),
which would have made Mamie about seventy-three.
She made me this sleepy-time puppy which I cherished all my childhood,
and still have tucked away in a memento box.
Once, when I had to sew up a tear in its threadbare cloth,
I discovered that she had stuffed it with her old silk stockings.
No wonder it was so soft.

James Robert Saunders As a Young Man.

A portrait of my Great Uncle, James ("Jimmy") Robert Saunders, as a young man.
Jimmy was my grandfather Delbert ("Bud") Marion Saunders' older brother.
There is no date on the photo, but it was taken at the
Novelty Studio, on 1018 Broadway in Oakland, CA.
A note, written in my grandfather's hand on the back of the note
names the girl in the photo as Anita Kerr.

James Robert Saunders As A Boy

 The boy in this photo is my great uncle, James ("Jimmy") Robert Saunders.
The girl is just named as a "friend."
Jimmy was the older brother of my grandfather, Delbert ("Bud") Marion Saunders.
Jimmy was born in 1910.  This photo is dated 1912,
when he would have been two years of age.

I imagine that, like any little brother, Bud idolized his brother Jimmy,
because he spoke of him often and with great affection.

Another portrait of Jimmy Saunders, probably at the same photo session
since the shirt he's wearing is the same as above.

 Another portrait of Jimmy Saunders, dated two years later in 1914,
when he would have been four years old.

 A picture of Jimmy Saunders taken in San Francisco, at Ocean Beach.
The photo was turned into a post card.
My grandfather notes that it was available for sale Ocean Beach for over fifty years.

On the back of this particular post card, is a note from my Great Grandmother,
Nora Belle (Baker) Saunders, to her mother, Martha (Woodside) Baker.
The note is addressed to Mrs. M.E. Dwight of Dillon Montana, dated Oct. 12, 1913.
(By then, Martha had re-married Dan Dwight,
after the death of her first husband, Fred Baker.)
The note reads:

"Dear Mama, Here is Jimmie taken on the beach today,
at the Ocean Cliff House and his pet dog.
Wish Delbert was only here too,
but I knew you wanted to see Jimmie anyway."