HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! On 20 July 1917 LaVerne Henry Louis
Miller was born. Spellcheck says LaVern (no e) and a lot of his papers had it
both ways but it was with an e for him. Henry was his maternal grandfather’s name
and Louis his paternal grandfather’s name. This picture represented a typical
Sunday get-together. Only the men and one boy were included because, as Mom
would say “That was just the way things were back then”. Both of Mom’s
brothers, Welty on the left next to Dad, and Berle in the front, then my Uncle
Sherwood Thorson,( married Edith), Grandpa Arnold and Mom’s Uncle Tom Arthur on
the right. Our social life was often Sunday at Grandpa’s, where you shared a
big meal and time with the ever-growing family, celebrated births/birthdays and
such, played ball and had fun outside. I had many cousins near my age and we all
grew up together on these Sundays. I estimate this picture was taken in 1938.
