Nellie (Baker) Jilbert

 My great Aunt Nellie (Baker) Jilbert and her husband, whose name is unknown.
Nellie was the youngest of the Baker daughters.
Her birth date is unknown, but it is likely some time in the early 1900s.
Her older sister, Nora Belle (Baker) Saunders,
was my grandfather Delbert Saunders's mother.

There is no date on the photo.

A small, photo-booth-style of my Great Aunt Nellie.
There is no date on the photo.
Nellie had one son whose name was Jake (nicknamed Jakey).
Jakey married a woman named Rose.
Together they lived in Tracy, raising their two children, Beverly and Richard.

 Great Aunt Nellie with her granddaughter,
Beverly Jilbert, daughter of Jakey and Rose Jilbert.
Also in the photo is my father, George Marion Saunders.
A note on the back of the photo says is was taken in Tracy, California.
From the white picket fence, my father remembers that
this was Jakey's and Rose's front yard.
He and Beverly I spend played together there often.
The photo names the other two girls as Joyce and Diane Calhoun,
though we don't know who these girls might be.
My father remembers Aunt Nellie, but she was not married when he was a child.
He cannot recall whether she was widowed or divorced at the time.

Great Aunt Nellie, with a fish.
The back of the photo is stamped with a July 27, 1937 date,
processed by Bear Photo Services.

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.