Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday – Grandpa and Ma Pepperney

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The back of this photo says ‘Grandpa and Ma Pepperney’. Assuming my great grandmother Margaret Pepperney Lowry wrote those words, and I believe she did based on the handwriting, then this is Frank and Margaret Buhl Pepperney, my 3rd great grandparents. Frank was born in 1847 in the Austrian Empire (although where specifically is unknown). His wife Margaret was born 1849 in Pennsylvania. They were married in 1870 in Pittsburgh. Frank died in 1927, Margaret in 1923. Both died and are buried in Pittsburgh.

Wordless Wednesday – 98-year old Michael ‘Grandpap’ Lowry

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I’m impatient and couldn’t wait to post this crappy photo of a photo. Taken in 1928 in Leetonia, Ohio, this is my 3rd great grandfather Michael “grandpap” Lowry. This is part of a series of photos involving his son Michael, grandson Charles and great grandson Charles. Grandpap was about 98 years old when this photo was taken. He didn’t survive the year. I’m scanning them all to a higher quality and will post the better version later.

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Wordless Wednesday – Cousins

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One of my favorite photos. All of the Lowry cousins on Thanksgiving 1998 (I think), save Lindy Jean and Jude, who were not yet born. This was probably the last time we were all together until our grandfather died in 2007. Between us, these young kids now have 10 kids of their own.
Top to bottom, left to right: 
Joe, JP, Mike, James, Caroline, Katie, Laura, Kelly, Jeannie, Jen, Colleen, Kaitlyn, Sara

Wordless Wednesday – Chuck Lowry outside St Vincent dePaul

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Wordless Wednesday is usually a family photo, but I found this newspaper photo yesterday and had to share. Chuck Lowry, with just the slightest smile, stands in front of a mural painted next to the St. Vincent dePaul office at 15 Oak Hill Avenue.
Source:

“Portrait Repainted,” Youngstown Vindicator, Section A, Page 7. October 24, 1982, accessed April 23, 2013. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HOM_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=RlgMAAAAIBAJ&dq=vincent%20depaul%20lowry&pg=1900%2C2751718

Wordless Wednesday – A Shrine Visit

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For most of their lives, my grandparents Chuck and Jean Lowry made trips to various shrines around the United States and Canada, from the far away (Basilica of Sainte Anne de Beaupré in Canada and Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Lewiston, New York) to the more local . With their two sons Chuck and Pat in tow (and nine more yet to be born!), I believe this to be a trip to the Our Lady of Lourdes grotto in Mogadore, Ohio sometime in 1952.

Jean and Chuck just inside the grotto. The unique stonework  on the left was a telling sign when I went to identify the shrine. (See here for the grotto today.) Who took the photo? Maybe one of their parents or siblings? Photo from my parent’s collection.
Chuck, left, and Pat in front of the altar at the Shrine. Photo from a my parent’s collection.
Chuck next to a statue of Mary. Photo from a my parent’s collection.

Wordless Wednesdays are a genealogy blogging prompt where I post photos – supposedly without any commentary, which isn’t very helpful for the reader, so commentary you shall have.