Family Photos with Historic Significance
John and Antoinette Herrick shown when they married in 1900. The
writing on the back, shown below, is my mother's.
This was before Antoinette contracted typhoid fever which left her
with a mild case of epilepsy and unable to conceive. I had heard that
her fever was so high she lost all of her hair. They wanted children
and thus adopted my mother Amelia Jablowonska when my mother was 5.
When I was 4 or 5 ( Iam not certain of the date) she married Anton
Herek, a widower. Note the different spelling of the surname.
Dorothy Skony, Buy Kay, and Patsy Mindy were his grandchildren and
they spent their summers in Momence.
Frank Kay whose name was Kazinowski (or one similar as I never saw it
spelled out) was a close friend of my father and a loving, kind and
gentle man. He taught me to drive when my father was overseas.
Frank Kay died Christmas Eve 1959 of an unexpected heart attack.
Others said he was distraught about the impending divorce of his
daughter LaVerne.
member of the 25th Medical Evacuation Hospital and was stationed in
Santo in the South Pacific. While there he contracted Malaria and a
tropical fungal infection. He was sent back to do Plastic Surgery at
Winter General hospital in Topeka, Kansas. From there he was
transferred to Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital in El Paso, Texas. He was
discharged with the rank of Lt. Colonel. Esperitu
in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland. The Soviets also attacked
from the other side. I still have a Burberry trench-coat and have had
several over the years. The picture symbolizes the Mythos of "the
Honor and Glory" of Old Poland. Mythos always trumps logos. Indeed
one should always attack tank with cavalry, saber and pistol.
Kay and Bon Gerhard are aboard. The boat was named the Delphinia and
was an Islander 32. Not at all a fast boat.