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Helena Laughs

This is a video of my first cousin’s daughter Helena. Does that make her my second cousin? Or is it first cousin once removed? Who knows, I just know she’s already a star. Her Dad Tom asks her who she likes best Mama or Dada. Mama, Crystal, is trying to get Helena to say Mama.

July 1944

According to the handwriting on the back of this photograph it was taken in July of 1944 somewhere in Toledo, Ohio. The beautiful young woman in the photograph is Mrs. Robert L. Gorrell and she is 23 years old. The apple cheeked baby is Robert L. Gorrell, Jr. or Bobby. He is 14 months old. […]