This file is also at Shorter chapters capture her recollections of her later, more traditionally residential era in Altadena. These latter two chapters recall events similarly for her sons, Jack and Michael.
You can download a larger text image file: 30 MB, 73 pages - in three parts - memories of years with her sons by Helen Burke Truher, written about 1980. It has a weakly printed pages. This text should download as a single 30 MB PDF file to your desktop from the link just below. https://truher.net/gene/HBT/SeattleAltadena/HBT-EarlyYears-w3Boys.pdf Contents: HBT recollection on years shared with each of three sonsI can make reading the first 9 of those 73 pages a little easier, as I had earlier converted those typed pages to digital format with some Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. I ultimately found that completing the OCR task was too time consuming among priorities. Here below are the OSC converted 9 pages are available on the web: https://truher.net/gene/HBT/SeattleAltadena/HBTxt-JWT2-5m0510a.doc https://truher.net/gene/HBT/SeattleAltadena/HBTxt-JWT2-5m0510a.pdf My mother's story gains context from album pictures she had gathered, and which I had digitized for web display in various ways. For example, here are the family album pictures from the Seattle years (album PA1) in a separate web page: https://truher.net/gene/HBT/PA1/HBT-PA1-wComment.html and the relevant pictures from two other of mother's albums from the same era: https://gene.truher.net/HBT/PA02/PA02-PA03-tempPg.html I have recently reestablished my more comprehensive genealogy web site, which includes the Burke and Ford lines. https://gene.truher.net/TBF.ntweb/ The URL above has all the same pictures and text for mother's photo album, but you might prefer the format from the URL below. https://gene.truher.net/HBT/HBTalbums-xhtml/toc.html I found Helen's typically thoughtful response from mother to her grown son, Jack in 1972: https://truher.net/gene/HBT/HBT-WWII-1972-1of3web.jpg |