1934-2019
We were sad to hear that Dad's sister Doris passed away this week at age 85. She was dearly loved by family and friends for her old-fashioned courtesy, generosity and sweet dignified ways.
Aunt Doris was a big part of our best childhood memories. Doris lived in Quakertown her entire life, and with Uncle Charlie raised a family in a home they built next to the farm where she was born.
The old Bleam family farm
She grew up during the Great Depression, the youngest of Grammy's six children. This was obviously a hard time to raise a big family in rural Pennsylvania. But the old photographs I have are full of smiling, contented faces. It was indeed a simpler and kinder time and the passing of this generation is a sad loss.
Aunt Doris with friend, circa 1940
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