Friday, March 24, 2017

Geary's Valley Rest, Route 106, Lawton, Pa

The photo with the two boys is marked, Summer 1937.  I don't know who they are but possibly Judy Ellison Papso or her sister, Terry Kolpakas, may know.  I believe that this place was owned by their maternal grandmother, Anna Mae Coleman Geary, " Mae" after her husband, Charley died in a truck accident in 1931.  It contained a little gas station and convenience type store and it was a way that Mae could support her 8 children after her husband's untimely death. Later, Mae moved her family to the Triple Cities are and worked for IBM (as per the Curley Reunion Second Edition 1989).  My father, Charles A. Fries, Sr. had fond memories of going to Geary's Valley's Rest as a young man.  Apparently he stayed in one of these itsy-bitsy cabins a time or two.
Ruth Geary Snover , Gene O'D Frankowski , ? Gerard O'D (partially hidden) Rose O'D, Rosina Coleman Smith, Nellie O'D, Nonie Geary Ellison, Anne Fries O'D in back, John O'Donnell, I am not sure who the kids are (boy with Nellie may be Warner Krebs?  

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