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| Albert Loved Sylvia A Family Love Story by Carma Gagne Chan Kindle and paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095GQ7DTT |
My grandmother's name is Sylvia. It is such a lovely name, I think more people should choose it for their daughters.
I did not get to meet her since her departure from Earth occurred many years before I was born.
During her short life, before illness took over, she was a devoted loving mother of her two daughters, Gloria and Ruth. I am one of four daughters of Ruth and feel very grateful to have had her as my mother.
Besides keeping the home beautiful and tidy, cooking for the family morning, noon and night, baking bread and cookies, sewing on buttons, keeping the children alive and well, they were creative women.
Sylvia enjoyed scrapbooking and she made the most hilarious and marvelous scrapbook. She cut cartoons from magazines, cut heads out of family photos, and pasted them over the cartoon characters. These were 1920s and 1930s cartoons, very high quality glossy pages, beautifully drawn, and most clever. The kind of cartoons published in The New Yorker and Life magazines. It was absolutely hysterical, and oh so charming.
She did a pencil sketch of her president, whom she obviously respected and admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR was the man who pulled us out of The Great Depression of the 1930s. He was the leader responsible for many important infrastructure projects throughout the United States. Dams, bridges, highways and more. He established a social security net. The list goes on. His legacy stands as one of the greatest leaders of all time, really, in terms of caring about people.
As my fingers lightly touched her scrapbook, I felt her love for the people who made her world.
I do not have the scrapbook today. It was supposed to be the one thing that I got when our mother died, but it seems to have gotten "lost". I hope that a grandchild has it and that they treasure it.
The book cover at the top of the page represents years of dedication to memorialize my Gagne grandparents. ❤
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| Damaged photo (before the restoration) |
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| Restored Photo of Sylvia Dorothy Tietjen Gagne |
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| Her family called her by her middle name, Dorothy This photo is with her sister Novella |
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| Albert & Sylvia Gagne with three of her siblings... Beth, Novella, Orville. Al called her Sylvia, adoringly. |
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| My mother, Ruth, a beautiful baby |
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| My mother, Ruth, at 20 months |
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| My Aunt Gloria, age 16 |