Two More Pictures of Early Utterback's

I know that the first picture is a little light, but I didn't know how to fix it. I did darken it just a little. Again these two pictures come from Gary Messinger, who got them from his mother, June. June is in these pictures. I am enjoying them, as my father is Glenn is the pictures. With June's hair this way, it reminds me of when my Cynthia had her hair cut the same style. If I can find the picture, I will put it on and you can see how she looks like June.

Left to right: William (Billy), Glenn, Geri, Evelyn, Iola, Darlene, Jack (Neile Everett) and June, are Utterback cousins. William, Glenn, Jack and Evelyn are children of William Everett and Rodetta Utterback. Geraldine (Geri), Iola and Darlene are children of 'Sis' and George Swartz. June is the daughter of  Ross and  Blance Utterback.

Sitting left to right: Evelyn, Geri, Glenn and Iola. 

Standing left to right: June, Darlene and Jack.

Iola 'June'  Utterback(1918-2014)

Darlene Swartz (1923-?)

Iola Swartz (1924-1976)

Geraldine (Geri- I don't know if this is how she spelled her name.)Swartz, (1927-?)

Everett Neile 'Jack' Utterback (1922-1986)

Evelyn Utterback (1923-2007)

Glenn Utterback (1926-2001)

William 'Bill' Utterback (1928-2003)

Extended Utterback Family

Here are some pictures of my great-grandparents and their children:

The Utterback family home.

Elizabeth and Everett Leister Utterback - 50th Anniversary picture.

Leister (1867-1940)

Leister and his dog.

Bill

Iva ( 1907-2002) and June (1918-2014) Utterback 

Iola 'Sis' Utterback (1893-1989)

Lizzie (1870-1960)

Four Generation Picture

Uncle George (1891-1932), Lizzie Utterback, Elizabeth Smith Ralston (1832-1924) and baby Robert (1920-1999).

Iza, Leister and Iva Utterback

My Father

I found some interesting papers on my dad and thought I would share them with my family here. I really don't know where to start, so I will start with this paper of his feeding schedule and formula. You can click on the picture to make it bigger.

I could not image making this and serving it to a baby. Poor tummy.

He was born in Spokane and moved with his family down to Fresno, CA,  and then to Baldwin Park, sometime before 1935, as the last two siblings were born in Los Angeles.
Here is report card from 2nd grade, at 7 years old.

Now I am only showing the inside of the card, so we (his children) can compare ourselves at this age.)

On the right is dad, and left is Uncle Bill. I would say they are now in Baldwin Park, CA. Ages about 10 and 8, here.

Dad told a story once of how he and Uncle Bill would take the shoe polish box and walk to downtown Los Angeles by following the rail tracks and polish mens shoes to earn money at this age. It was over 10 miles one way. I don't know how they did it, but the family needed help with the money they earned.

Dad about 15, Uncle Bill about 13.

  Eight grade graduation, June 12, 1941!

 Covina High School, 1941-1942

Dad, right in the middle.

He played football his freshman year!

Interesting that my dad has on a jersey with the number 65. My brother, Kent, his senior year also wore that number.

The last two pictures I found by my surprise on ancestry.com through their high school yearbook section. Needless to say what a joy it was, as we don't have that many pictures of my father when he was younger. At the age of 16, my grandmother gave permission for my father to enter the war and so he didn't  graduate high school but served his country. He did later attend college for many years to work on his work skills.
When I have enough information on his military time, I will add that down the road.
I wanted to end this with a picture from the Covina High School Yearbook, of a citrus orchard and Mt. Baldy 1942.

I think it is a beautiful picture, don't you think so?

Siblings

In January 1957 Kevin came into our family! Sorry about the whiteness, I wish I knew how to photoshop.

In August 1958, our sister Karen is added! This is the four of us. This picture was taken in 1959.

My Brother and Me

Here are some pictures of my brother and I when we were just little tikes. The photos seemed to have been on paper that came off in a roll and then my mother cut each picture. Mom must have ordered enough to send for Christmas gifts, as on the back of one of the pictures, it says he was 2 and I was 1. So these were taken right after my first birthday, in 1952. Which pose do you like best?

 Looking right at the camera.

How did they get us to look up like that at the same time??











This is the one they sent off to the relatives!

 

And here is one of just me! I am sure that my brother has the one of himself.

Wish I knew how to photoshop the cracks made from the paper.
Thanks for stopping by!

In Remembrance

William Everett Utterback

1895-1959

I was looking for a  picture to post and came across some papers, that I decided to read. A booklet of my grandfather's was in the pile. I have read and looked at these booklets and papers before but noticed something new this time. When my grandfather passed on I was turning 8 years old. He was buried on the day of my birthday. I went with my mother to watch her make all the arrangements for the funeral. For me that was the first time I knew of someone who died and let alone look at all the scary things that you need to do when someone passes on. Of course now, it doesn't bother me, as death is part of this life. Grandpa died in 1959 and that is when Boris Karloff was doing all the scrary movies and grandpa did have his scary eyes, so it was a little spooky for a kid of 8 to go through. If this is the only picture you had to remind your grandfather wouldn't you kinda think he looked like Boris???
 Now I have some good pictures of grandpa and my memories of him always holding my hand and going for walks.

Grandpa and Uncle Bill.

Uncle Bill came to visit at least once a year when we lived in Santa Fe Springs, back in the early 50's. He and dad always were laughing and having a good time.

Great-Aunt Iza, Glenn and Emma Utterback (my parents), Great-Aunt Iola and Grandpa (William Everett Utterback).

    
In the above picture, grandpa had a visit from two of his four sisters.They lived in Spokane. A distant cousin had this picture and was wondering who the younger couple were. This cousin and I met through ancestry.com and started sharing relatives names. He said he had some pictures and I had some, so we emailed each other and this was my treasure. The young couple is my parents at the house where I started my first 8 years, of course my brothers and sister lived there too!
Back to what I noticed in the booklet. You will need to click on the pictures to make them bigger, so that you can read what the page says.

On this page it does say he died in Santa Fe Springs, but he fell over of a heart attack in the front of his apartment in Los Angeles. My parents lived in Santa Fe Springs, so maybe the funeral director thought it was that city.

He had lots of flowers.

 From these pages is where I noticed that my great-mother was still alive! The line that says: Mrs. E. L Utterback-mother, wow, so I had to go and look up when she passed on. She was 88 years old and not able to come.  She died the next year in June. Don Mitchell (cousin) drove down the two aunts from Spokane. I also noticed the pall-bearers were my mothers', uncles and brother.
This experience has suggested to me to read more thoroughly the information from booklets or papers, so that I can get closer to my ancestors and their lives.

Missions and Vacations

Santa Barbara Mission

As a family we went on vacations every summer. Mostly up and down the coastline of California. Along the way we would camp, visit family members and visit the California missions. My father always had a route and made sure it included the California Missions. We have been through quite a few of them.  I remember being bored and wanted to go to something more fun than just walking through dirt, musky smelling old buildings. Now that I am older, I enjoy more of the history of California and am glad that we have these pictures for our memories.

There are 21 missions from San Diego up to San Francisco. There are many sites one can look up to see the information about each mission and where there are located from google search engine. I know that I have been to at least 10 of the missions’ maybe more. The one I am most familiar with is La Purisuma Concepcion as I have lived in Lompoc and visited there more than once.

Here are some pictures that my father took while we were young. Kent, Karen or anyone who has been to some missions please add comments at the end. (Thanks!)

Santa Barbara Mission

A good link to learn about this mission is: http://www.athanasius.com/camission/san_jose.htm

Aunt Shirley and her children came to San Jose with us. Left to right: Shirley (dad's sister), Randy (cousin), Glenda (me) ,Kent (brother), Emma (mom) holding Kevin (brother). It looks like I am the only one happy? Summer of 1957.

San Jose Mission

Part of the cemetery at San Jose.

Inside San Jose Mission

 

 Even though time has faded some of the details in these pictures, I think my father did a good job of deciding what pictures he wanted developed. As back in the late 1950's film and developing was costly.

Happy Memorial Day!

Thought I would share with you some of the pictures I have of relatives in the military at different time periods. There are many more family members who have serve, these are just a few that I have pictures of with their uniforms on. I wish to thank all of those past and present who have served in the military. Thanks for keeping America free!!!

Ross Utterback - WW I, my great-uncle.

Harry Armstrong in Greenland- WW II, my grandfather

Bill and Glenn Utterback- WW II, Uncle Bill and my father.

Jack Utterback- WW II, my uncle.

Harry Mahakian - WW II, my grandfather

Robert Riggs - Korea, Uncle Bob

Kent Utterback - Viet Nam, my brother

Kevin Utterback - Iceland, my brother


 If you have pictures that you want me to add of our family members, email me and I can put them on. Also if you have a cool story to go with it, that would be nice. Thanks!