in photo booth

Left to Right:

Steve Samko, unknown, Charles Samko, Clara Samko, Helen Samko (sitting), Anna Mae Feske Thornton, unknown.

in photo booth

1945

High School Photos

and 2 unknown others

November 31 1951

at far corner of table

and 4 unknown others

1954 winter

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

backyard

June 1957

with puppy and doing laundry

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

backyard

1963

in back yard of Ellamae and George W. Feske

30 May 1961

backyard

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

May 1962

in kitchen

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

1959

in kitchen

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

1959

in back yard

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

May 1962

in backyard

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

May 1961

in front room

10046 S. Perry Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

May 1962

and Tom (last name not known to me? - TCT)

at home of Ira Newton and Clara S Thornton

Thornton, Illinois

1960's

from Arkansas to Chicago

June 1951

(no letter inside)

I suspect that this was a visit to perhaps Anna and Steve Hegedus who frequently went to Hot Springs, Arkansas.

If I was there, I would have been 2 years old.  I don't remember this.  TCT

school photo

1st grade-Bennett School

1930's

Unfortunately, my mother sometimes scratched out her image in photographs.  TCT

school photo

4th grade-Burnside School

1930's

Unfortunately, my mother sometimes scratched out her image in photographs.  TCT

school photo

7th grade-Oliver Hazard Perry School

May 1942

Unfortunately, my mother sometimes scratched out her image in photographs.  TCT

Notice: "patrol boys" with white crossing belts !

"Tootsie"

as post card

sometime in 1929-30

about age 3 - TCT

September 11 1932

Richard Dennis Boncz Thornton

Sandra Jean Thornton

about 1944? - TCT

Sandra Jean Thornton

1940's ? - TCT

Clara S Thornton

and perhaps Thomas Carl Thornton

1949 TCT

unknown female

Ira Newton Thornton and unknown child

Sandra Jean Thornton

Thomas Carl Thornton

perhaps 1950 - TCT

George W Feske

unknown female

front of 9147 Ellis Avenue, Burnside, Chicago, Illinois

parents home

in front of apartment

of Ira Newton and Clara S Thornton

notice service star on door

Uncle Tex was at the Naval Training Center (CVS) at this time.  TCT

original SS card

Notice: Name "Anne" - TCT

(center? or left?)

Fenger HS

Alvera and Irene

April 20 1945

(on left)

Fenger HS

Charles ORourk and Betty Szekly

January 25 1945

(bottom left)

Fenger HS

Dorothy-Pat-Alvera-Irene

April 20 1945

Fenger HS

" Aud " ?

April 20 1945

Fenger HS Campus

May 29 1946

July 1947

and unknown female

on a beach

and unknown female

November 1948

and unknown female

Is this Lorraine?  TCT

and unknown female

I believe that this was taken in back yard of grand parents

Joseph and Anna Labuda Feczke

Ellis Avenue, Burnside, Chicago,Illinois - TCT

and unknown female adult and child

(center)

and unknown females

and unknown female

(Is this Lorraine? TCT)

front of parents home

9147 Ellis Avenue Burnside Chicago Illinois

and unknown female

(Is this Alvera? TCT)

front of parents home

9147 Ellis Avenue Burnside Chicago Illinois

and unknown female

(Is this Lorraine? TCT)

back yard grandparents

Ellis Avenue

Burnside Chicago Illinois

and unknown female

(Is this Lorraine? TCT)

back yard grandparents

Ellis Avenue

Burnside Chicago Illinois

and unknown female

(Is this Lorraine? TCT)

back yard grandparents

Ellis Avenue

Burnside Chicago Illinois

and unknown female

(Is this Lorraine? TCT)

back yard grandparents

Ellis Avenue

Burnside Chicago Illinois

back yard grandparents

Ellis Avenue

Burnside Chicago Illinois

I believe this is a mirrored image photo - TCT

back yard grandparents

Ellis Avenue

Burnside Chicago Illinois

and unknown female

appears to be downtown Chicago - TCT

(Am I the baby in the carriage? TCT)

unknown females

(Is the other female with baby carriage Lorraine? TCT)

with baseball bat

Looks like picnic grove - TCT

October 1952

Is this the "Lorraine" of the pictures above?  TCT

and girl friends

I recognize the one to her left with cigarette and the one sitting in front with glasses.

However, I do not recall their names.  TCT

and other

at Walgreens

Unfortunately, blurred.  TCT

June 9, 1952

Avon Rep Pamphlet

June 9 1952

at party

unknown band leader autographed photo

Looks like Charles J Feske, to her right, and Lorraine Mertes and Carl T Thornton to her left.

May be Peter Mertes (Lorraine's brother) drinking on blanket.  TCT

with other view

and other family members

Left Picture: In center looking at camera: Charles J Fecske and mother, Helen Samko Feske.  Male standing is George J. Feske.

Right picture: Charles "Collie" Samko , sitting on table looking backward.  Background, left, Carl T Thornton, middle, Charles J Fecske.

TCT

and girl friend

at the beach

August 22 1960

From left to right; back to front:

Sandra Jean Thornton, Robert Charles Samko, Paul Joseph Boncz Jr., Richard Dennis Boncz Thornton

Thomas Carl Thornton, Unknown adult female, Carol Ann Thornton, Anna Mae Feske Thornton

Unknown younger girl.

In back yard of George J. and Helen S. Feske

9147 Ellis Avenue, Burnside, Chicago, Illinois

From left to right:

Helen Tipi Samko, unknown female, 

Anna Mae Feske Thornton (my mother)

as young girl

photo appears double-exposed? - TCT

as young girl

July 17 1941

Paducka Kentucky vacation

possibly in parents home - TCT

and neighbor Peter Mertes

possibly his wedding day - TCT

and Aunt Rannfrid Fecske

ttp://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=Anna+Mae&gsln=Feske&msbdy=1929&msbpn__ftp=Chicago%2c+Cook%2c+Illinois%2c+USA&msbpn=36829&msbpn_PInfo=8-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3247%7c16%7c0%7c730%7c36829%7c0%7c&msrpn__ftp=Illinois%2c+USA&msrpn=16&msrpn_PInfo=5-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3247%7c16%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&msypn__ftp=Illinois%2c+USA&msypn=16&msypn_PInfo=5-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3247%7c16%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&uidh=5vk&msbdp=1&_83004003-n_xcl=m&pcat=NEWYEAROFFER&h=143368208&db=1940usfedcen&indiv=1

Certified Copy of Birth Certificate

Anna Mae Feske

August 1945

Certificate of Honor

Awarded to

Anna Mae Feske

for Classwork and Citizenship

28 February 1941

O.H. Perry School

W. Jordan - teacher

Chicago Public Schools-Progress Reports 

1938 to 1941

to mother Anna Mae Thornton

Year?

from Tom Bob and Jimmy - cover and inside

Gift from son

Thomas C. Thornton

Maryknoll Missal

Gift from son

Thomas C. Thornton

Commercial Program (?business?)

Judging by the date,

I suspect that this was going to be used

as a down payment for house on Perry Avenue.

TCT 

from_Montgomery Ward

May 1963

and receipt for $109.50

(a lot of money in those days)

bought_by_Anna Mae and Carl T Thornton

( and I thought that this was from grandparents

George and Helen Feske)

Unfortunately, I saw this go at estate auction after mother died.  TCT

November 1966

Mother raising 3 children

Note: Monthly Electric bill of $4.30

Anna Mae Feske

13 October 1929

Our Lady of Hungary Church

Burnside, Chicago Illinois

Anna Feske Thornton Dixon - Jan 89

I am not sure if this is in the house in Tinley Park or in Upper Sandusky

JST says that is Brandon L Thornton on left.

TCT

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/107923/person/-36251754/photo/12b0e509-ef46-4b1a-b0e9-6fdd3e8f2e65?src=search

Anna with sons Tommy and Jimmy Thornton

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/107923/person/-36251754/photo/f7426f21-4730-4f08-9a5e-98be97b7111a?src=search

This is in the office at:

224 West Johnson Street

Upper Sandusky, Ohio 43351

Would have been after 1985

TCT

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/107923/person/-36251754/photo/f7426f21-4730-4f08-9a5e-98be97b7111a?src=search

James Sterling Thornton

Anna Mae Feske Thornton Dixon

Thomas Carl Thornton

Certificate of Marriage

Anna Mae Thornton & Carl Thomas Thornton

Chicago, Illinois

28 February 1948

Justice of the Peace

Certificate of Marriage

Anna Mae Thornton & Carl Thomas Thornton

Jeffersonville, Indiana

7 August 1948

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=CookCountyMarriages&h=1713309&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=1671

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

Original data: Cook County Clerk, comp. Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records. Cook County Clerk’s Office, Chicago, IL: Cook County Clerk, 2008.

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=OHobit&h=535695&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=5763

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s-2011, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original data: Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Indexers and Volunteers. “Ohio Obituary Index.” Database. Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/ : 2009.

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ohdeath93-98&h=4147641&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7304

Source Information:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ChicagoTribuneObits&h=46225&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&tid=107923&tpid=-36251754&rhSource=1499

Source Information:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=cookcountybirths&h=2052324&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t107923_p-36251754_kpidz0q3d-36251754z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

Original data: Cook County Clerk, comp. Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records. Cook County Clerk’s Office, Chicago, IL: Cook County Clerk, 2008.

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&h=143368208&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t107923_p-36251754_kpidz0q3d-36251754z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid

Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T627_937; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 103-524.

Source Information:

and Richard R. Dixon

Marriage Certificate

May 17th 1977

Joliet, Illinois

southeast of Upper Sandusky, Ohio

Wyandot County Road 55.

front left to right:

Anna Mae Feske Dixon-Ella Mae and George Feske-Richard Dixon- other couple?

(back of picture: Calumet Studion - 3725 E. 106th St, Chicago, Il - 768-1951)

Sent by Carol Ann Thornton Johnson