Lost and
Now Found
Last summer I published on this site, photographs I had taken
with a simple Kodak Instamatic camera of the Holliman/Daly/Ferrell/Herrin/Cornelius
gathering in Irondale, Alabama, July 1968.
At that writing, I thought all the pictures of that day had been
recovered, but fortunately I was wrong.
Since then, my sister, Becky
Holliman Payne of Cookeville, Tennessee, has found approximately 400 slides
in memorabilia boxes of our Mother, Geraldine
Stansbery Holliman Feick (1923-2015).
Our sister, Alice Holliman Murphy
of Trophy Club, Texas scanned them and gave me electronic copies. My Mother also had an Instamatic camera, a
simple marvel of that time when one popped in a cartridge, and the film
advanced after each picture.
So here are some of the ‘lost’ pictures she and my father took
from 1967 to 1976. Step back then in time and find yourself or your parents and
grandparents much younger, and several of us, much thinner and with other
spouses. This was over a half century
ago, a summer of much disconnect in America with an unpopular war, two
political assassinations and a Southern family adjusting to the Civil Rights
revolution of that time.
Left to right, Alice
Holliman Murphy, age 12, Mary Daly
Herrin, b. 1931, the first grandchild of Ulyss and Pearl Caine
Holliman, Linda Herrin Bradley,
now living in Orange Beach, Alabama, and my mother, Gerry Stansbery Holliman Feick.
Below, Alice and Linda embrace David
and Suzanne Herrin, Linda’s younger
siblings.
Above left to right, are Charles
and Loudelle Ferrell. Charles (1907-1999) was a United Methodist
Church minister, a graduate of Birmingham-Southern and Yale Divinity School.
Loudelle (1914-1998) was the third child of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman to
marry. They had three children, Charles, Carolyn and John.
In the background are Jean
Holliman and Tommie Holliman Allen,
two of the six children of Euhal, far right gesturing with his hands, and Edna
Westbrook Holliman (1916-1992), not pictured here. In 1968, Euhal (1912-1989) and his family
were living at 2300 3rd Avenue North in Irondale in the home of his
late parents, Ulyss (1884-1965) and Pearl (1888-1955).
Finally, in a white dress in the foreground is Kathy Holliman listening to her
Uncle Euhal as is her father, Ralph
Holliman (1924-2017). Ralph was a
corporate executive for American Bakeries in Chicago, eventually retiring to
Gulf Shores, Alabama with his wife, Motie
(1924-2003), not pictured here.
Below left to right is George
Hairston, Patti Holliman’s
husband. Patti (in sun glasses) is the
daughter of Melton (1908-1958) and Ida Holliman (1905-1995). Next is
Susan Cornelius Williams and her sister, Carol Cornelius Morton with her husband, Carl Blomstran. Susan and Carol are the daughters of Walter (1922-2005)
and Virginia Holliman Cornelius (1922-2011), the sixth child of Ulyss and Pearl
Holliman.
Look soon
for another posting and more photographs of this 1968 family gathering at the
home of E.C. and Mary Daly Herrin in Irondale, Alabama.
