Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

I got my Social Security number on 12/12/36, so it must have been the winter of 1936-37 when I stayed at Brasher's wash house.  Drove in...

Thank you, Ann.  When Ann sent us the CDs of so many family treasures, including recordings of past family get-togethers at Mother and Daddy...

Memorial Day 2013.  I always remember that when we were still home, Mother cut a bouquet of lilacs and iris, if either were b...

Kathryn Blood - a half sister Paul Blood - a half brother.

These grain storage elevators were built a few years ago just a short distance from where the Blood family lived just west of Ralston about ...

Lucinda and Norman Sorensen, Elna House, Sofe Johnson Have 30 years gone by since I took these pictures?

Liz called me this morning to titter, teehee, giggle and make fun of me when she could see I was struggling to fine tune the blog a bit.  Re...

From: Thomas MacEntee Date: November 7, 2010 4:58:34 AM MST To: dmblood@mac.com Subject: Your blog has been added to the list at GeneaB...

Watching the flow of information and photos this past year on Penrose Mornings, and looking through the boxes of stuff I have, have prompted...

Velna and I were married December 22 1953 in the Salt Lake Temple.  Velna had a job and therefore could make payments on her engagement ring...

Nineteen Sixty Eight. Fifteen years after I graduated from the University of Wyoming. Velna receives her bachelor's degree in elementary...

May 1953.  Four years of struggle. I was 20 years old, acquired a wife and a college degree.  I cleaned every building on the UW campus duri...

The thing about going out to Olympia to see Mom and Dad was . . .it wasn't Penrose.

Dear Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa, We're all sorry we can't be there on this Memorial Day with armloads of purple iris and li...