Can't Nothing Bring Me Down
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Me at the park with family. Left to right: Bunny, Bessie, Herman on Bessie’s lap, me, Daisy, Nolas with Lydia on his lap.
I’m pictured here with my coworkers at Union of American Hebrew Congregations. I’m second from the right.
A Christmas long ago. From left to right: me, Charles, Donald, my sister-in-law Bessie, and her daughter Sylvia.
From left to right: Nolas’s wife Bessie, her daughter Lydia, Donald, and me.
My son Donald as a young boy.
My son Charles as a young boy.
My sons, Donald and Charles, with their father’s parents, Matilda and Danny (center, behind the boys).
My siblings at a dinner party. Clockwise from the front left side: my sister Daisy with her husband, Fitzherman Dickson; my sister Mary with her husband, Bill Beal; my brother Oscar with his friend Enash; my sister Quentin with an unknown friend.
My siblings and me at a birthday party. Front row, from left to right (sitting on the floor): brother-in-law Roy, Mary’s husband; sister Daisy; Daisy’s lifetime friend Connie. Second row, left to right, starting from second from the left (standing and seated): family friend Ann; sister Mary; me; sister Quentin; brother-in-law Howard, Quentin’s husband; sister Omena. Third row, from the right (standing): brother Oscar, niece Rosalind, niece Barbara.
Donald in his dress clothes.
Charles in his leather jacket.
My husband, Lawrence Keeling, and me.
My husband, Lawrence Keeling, with our baby Laura.
Lawrence, me, and baby Laura.
Friend Amelia and me after dropping off Laura and Cheryl at America Fresh Air Camp in 1958.
A photo Donald sent to me. He was in training in the US Navy.
Charles (middle) at the bar with friends. He was overseas.
Charles with Mikki, the professional dancer he fell in love with in Watertown. They were leaving Laura’s wedding.
My niece Celeste’s birthday party. Cheryl is on the far left, and Laura is middle right with the pointy birthday hat. Front row, from left to right: Cheryl, Celeste, Phyllis, Angie. Second row: Herman, Deborah, a neighborhood friend, Laura, Lydia, a neighborhood friend. Back: a neighborhood friend.
My daughters as young girls. Cheryl (age four) is on the left and Laura (age six) is on the right.
Donald and June, his first and only wife.
My girls in 1962. From left to right: Cheryl, Laura, and me.
My son Charles in Okinawa, 1964.
Me in the 1970s.
Oswald (left) was a chef as a merchant seaman for United Fruitlines.
Me at a camp in Liberty, New York (Catskills).
A picture of me in the kitchen.
Me in the 1980s.
My daughter Cheryl and me in the 1970s.
A party. From left to right: me, my cousin Ralph, and my sister Omena.
From left to right: my sister Mary, my sister Omena, my son Charles, me, and my sister Daisy.
My seventy-first birthday party. From left to right: Laura, me, and Cheryl.
My eighty-first birthday at Tavern on the Green. My friend Pecolia and me, plus my grandchildren Lloyd and Hayward.
Me in my nineties.
I won the bronze at the World Athletic Veteran Games in Buffalo, New York , in 1995. I was eighty years old.
Running the 800 at the World Athletic Veteran Games.
Cheryl and me.
Photo: Norman Jean Roy / Art+Commerce