Eston & Franz June

 

Here we have a small video from twenty three reels of fantastic family footage of the Eston and Franz June family of Hudson N.Y. Twelve of these films come from Eston, the Father of Franz with eleven from Franz himself.

Filmed between 1955 and the early 1960's there is around fifty minutes in total of superb quality family events such as the courtship and marriage of Franz and his first wife, along with some footage of their honeymoon.

The wedding / baby shower plus the children's, especially Melissa's first Christmas, along with Birthday parties. Plus numerous family get togethers and holidays. On the lake fishing, a hunting trip, rebuilding / building the house. Playing with the dachsund dog and many road trips

Eston, a tool manufacturer was born in New York in 1911. His Marriage to Frances produced son Franz who was born Dec. 15, 1934, in Hudson, New York.

Franz began his working life as a draftsman in an apprenticeship program for General Electric in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In the late 1960s, after working for Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) in Florida, June and his family relocated to Lake Jackson, Texas, where he worked for Dow Chemical.

Through contacts he made at Dow, June and his business partners started Gulf States Inc., an industrial electrical contracting, construction and maintenance company in Freeport, Texas.

Franz, a former president of the Association of Building Contractors (now the role of the ABC chair of the board of directors), died on Friday, March 18, 2022.

He is survived by three daughters, Melissa, Rebecca and Mary, along with sons-in-law Michael and Jeff, as well as his grandchildren, David, Emily and Celia.

There is around fifty minutes of footage on these reels. The short clips that I have edited together show the quality of the footage available.

The whole twenty three reels, converted to digital format for playback on either YouTube or DVD or memory stick, with the original reels posted to the USA are available to purchase

 

 

Stephen Robert Bauman

 These are two reels from a batch of 14 of Kodachrome Super 8mm films which have come from the estate sale of Stephen Robert Bauman. Twelve filmed by Stephen along with two by his wife Audrey . These two reels show the first day on the school bus for Francine and Susan. Steve had worked many years as an electrical engineer with Comsat and Fairchild. He served in the Merchant Marines from 1944 to 1969 and was a radio electronics officer. He was a life member of the Frederick Elks and at one time an active member of the Columbia Lodge # 058, AF & AM, of Frederick, the A & A Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, Frederick Lodge and the Ali Ghan Shriners, Cumberland. He was a member of the Frederick Amateur Radio Club and was a past president. Audrey Bauman graduated from Frederick High School and received her undergraduate degree from Hood College in 1943. Audrey then received her master's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A career educator, she was a biology teacher at Frederick High School, Walkersville High School and at one time was put in Brunswick High School to replace a teacher that had been drafted into the military during World War II. Mrs. Bauman loved to teach and co-authored several books on biology. Upon her retirement in 1973, she became active in the Frederick Community in numerous organizations such as the Retired Teachers Association, The FMH Hospital Auxiliary, The Garden Club, The American Heart Association-Frederick Chapter and the Hood College Alumni Association. She was also a member at Frederick First Baptist Church and led the adult education for many years. Audrey and her husband were married in 1969. Upon her diagnosis with dementia, they were interviewed and featured in the Frederick Magazine in an article investigating Alzheimer's Disease and the impact on families

 

James H Suggs

 These are a small selection of a huge batch of thirty eight 3" reels of film shot by James H Suggs along with his wife, Ruth Elaine Suggs during the period 1956 to 1961. At this time the Suggs family were living in Birmingham Alabama. The films focus on many family gathering with a special emphasis on Christmas in the Suggs home. The girls, Debbie and Becky also feature at special times such as their birthdays. The family were great supporters of their church The Union Methodist Church becoming part of the congregation at the Woodlawn United Methodist church when they moved to Panama City Beach in Florida. The films show visits to Rock City as well as Oak Mountain, Silver Spring as well as numerous family gatherings. Becky's birthday parties, piano recitals, 4th July Parade, Founders day, in fact with over 70 minutes of film, this is a great archive of family movies. Unfortunately James Hansel Suggs passed in 2014 at which time the family were living in Panama City Beach. Survived by his wife Ruth as well as his daughters Vivian Glenn and Rebecca Mullins, the family live close together in Panama City Beach. Ruth and Vivian share a home and are close to the nine grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren

 

 

Richard N " Dick " Cech

 This video is a snapshot of the family films of Richard N Cech along with his wife Allene Rose from the 1950's. At the time of these films, Richard was living in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. He and Allene, whose maiden name was Kubice, and originally from Czechoslovakia were married on 23rd September 1951. Childhood sweethearts, they attended the J. Sterling Morton East High School, Cicero, Cook County, Illinois. They had two children, Dougie and Laura. Unfortunately the marriage was not to last. Dick and Allene were divorced with Allene marrying Jack Harmon, becoming Allene Rose Kubice Harmon. The Cech family was apparently quite extensive with Victor, William, Violet and Dee siblings of Dick. Unfortunately Dick passed at just 66 years old in 1998 in Cedar Rapids, Idaho. Allene Rose, in her second marriage, became stepmother to Brenda and Matthew. Laura Cech, Dick and Allene's daughter married Victor Daman. It appears Douglas also married. Allene passed peacefully aged 84 in 2017 and is survived by her children Douglas and Laura, as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren including Emily, McKenna, Edward, and Carolyn At the time of her passing Allene was living with her daughter Laura and Son in Law Victor. Do you know the family ? Please subscribe and follow the channel. Who knows, next time it could be your family.

 

 

Philip Dangler

Xmas 1965 Philip, Helen and Lynn Dangler from New Jersey along with grandparents and other members of their family opening presents, getting ready to eat, as well as Lynn playing with the family dog. 6 more reels available. Helen, now 90 lives in Florida. Lynn, divorced from Michael Bond and remarried is now Lynn Shapiro, aged 65, and living in Oakland, California. #dangler #newjersey

Alma Louise ( Reisig ) Tomlinson Family

These are the films of Alma Louise Tomlinson, formerly Reisig. 



Born in Monroe in 1900 Alma married George E Tomlinson in July 1926 at which time she and George moved to Detroit. In 1940 Alma gave birth to their daughter, Jeanne E Tomlinson who went on to marry Richard Paul " Dick Kohn in 1962. Dick and Jeanne had three children. Karen, R Paul Jr and Kristin. It's likely they were living at 13521 Darryl Drive, Warren, Michigan, 48093 Here is a 3.30 edited version uploaded to youtube of just some of what is on the 9 reels

 Kristin went on to marry Norm Albinson bringing in to the world Dick and Jeanne's grandaughter's and grandson, Kira, Cora and David

These amazing films show Kira, Cora and David images of their great grandparents.

These reels of super 8mm film are full of family and friends and once digitised will make a wonderful archive for your family for years to come.

The Roy and Alberta ( Bert ) Walker Family

This is the Roy Walker family from Spokane, Washington. 

Roy was born 4th August 1901 and was married to Alberta ( Bert ) Bascetta who was born in 1915. Alberta was a well known Real estate Manager at the time of her passing in 2013

In 1959 Roy and Alberta were living at East 7924 Sprague Avenue, Spokane, Washington

There are seven reels of 40 ft 8mm standard film available. Each roll is 3.5 minutes in duration. The youtube posting gives a representative selection of what is contained in these reels. 

 

The Charles Ingolf Skoor Family

These are clips from 8mm movies of The Charles Ingolf Skoor Family when they were living at 2511 10th Avenue West, Seattle, Washington in the 1950's and 60's

The Skoor Family are of Norwegian ancestry with Charles's father George born in Norway around 1880 emigrating to USA in around 1900 where he met his wife Lillie, from North Dakota

Lillie was the mother of Charles, Joseph, George and Ronald all living together in King, Seattle according to the 1930 census, with an earlier census showing Pearl a sister, and Engle as older siblings

There are nine 4 minutes reels of 8mm movies with huge amounts of great quality images of a very large extended family at graduations, trips to the lake, family pets, trip to Canada and family gatherings. Also there are clips of the family at the grave of Olga Kristina Maudslien, I assume another relative. Charles Skoor was born in King in 1909 and sadly passed in Issaquah in 1998. 

These movies came from an estate sale earlier this year and have been roughly edited together to create this movie. They can be professionally converted to enhance the quality and to enable them to be viewed in a more useabe format.

Each of the boxes that contain the 3" reels of 8mm film have very small script written in pen by I assume Charles Skoor listing the contents. Many Family members names are listed

I received this lovely comment from Holly Hettinger.... " Hello - My cousin directed me to your page. My mom is Karen Skoor, Charles Skoor's youngest daughter. In the second YouTube video of the Skoor family, my mom is the little girl with short brown hair and bangs sitting on the stairs petting cats at about 1:30. My cousin Stanley Straker sent me this link, which he received from another cousin. Thank you!!  What a great idea to run this site and try to get videos back to family!!!"

The Louis De Lalla Family

These are clips from the family movies of Louis De Lalla born February 1926 in Casacalenda, Italy, and who emigrated to the USA with his family at the age of eleven

In the 1940 Census he was sharing a house, aged 14 with his mother Julia, and younger brother Ralph ( Rafael) who at that time was just one year old

Through contact with his son Frank, he tells me Louis De Lalla became a tank sergeant enlisting around June 1944 and for his courage earning the purple heart. He re-enlisted in the Army in November of 1945 and after military service went on to establish his own business, Gem Valet Inc, a highly recognised and valued dry cleaning business in Washington, with the family home in Kansas Avenue.

He witnessed some of the atrocities in the concentration camps but was loathe to ever discuss some of the things he had seen
   

There are 14 reels of 8mm film with around 30 minutes of good viewable, mostly colour movies along with one Black and White Film and three boxes of slides

The contents of the movies include Jeanie's Christening and birthday parties, Easter with the family, an Idaho reunion at the lake, a trip to Canada, A College football game between St John's and Gonzago where his brother Rafael played, all filmed between 1955 and 1963

The colour slides may not be of the De Lalla family and are mainly landscape views, but will be included in the archive.

The movie I have put together here is made up of clips from a representative sample of the De Lalla archive and is roughly converted, however the quality could be improved with a professional conversion

This batch of movies was purchased  from and estate sale in April 2016

The research shows that Louis De Lalla passed in June 2008 whilst his beloved wife Carmela passed in February 2016 but are survived by their four children, Jean, Frank, Michael and Jo Anne, plus 8 grandchildren

 

The Frederick O Smetana Family

These are clips from seven reels of 8mm film converted into digital files of Dr Frederick O Smetana Phd family between 1958 and 1962

They show the four children of Dr Frederick Smetana and Adelaide Virginia Smetana.

The eldest Daniel, plus Martha, Andrew and Paul Fran celebrating various birthdays and the opening of Christmas presents.

Frederick and Adelaide appear in these films. Their marriage endured over 50 years until Adelaides demise in July 2005 with Dr Smetana passing in May 2011 in Raleigh N.C at the age of 83

A full obit is available on the Dignity memorial website 

These films were shot during the period of 1955 to 1961 whilst Dr Smetana was a research scientist at the University of Southern California where he earned his Ph.D. in Engineering. 

At that time the family were living at 2445 Frances Avenue, La Crescenta Monrose, California in a rather imposing property

Of the chldren, Andrew seems to have had a fine career as a police officer and is now retired and living in Sparta New jersey

Should you be interested in recovering these memories to perhaps have them converted in a more usable format, please use the contact form on the top right of the page. They are standard 8 and have all been run through a projector and are in very good condition.