Grandpa David Wilson Latta

Vernon John Latta holding his little girl, Betty Jane

Grandma Effie Jane (Schaub) Latta

(Taken at Dave and Effie's home on East Tuscarawas Street, Canton, Ohio)

1943

Vern was on leave to spend a little time with his wife and little girl before being shipped to serve in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. He was stationed overseas for more than a year and a half. I next saw him when I was almost 2 and a half. In the service he received these citations: Asiatic-Pacific Theater w/4 Bronze Stars, Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal. (See the sketch provided on this web site about his military service.)

This photo is from the collection of my aunt, Janedith Ellen Latta, my loving Aunt Jan, Aunt Janie. It was in a box of about a hundred slides taken in the 1930s, 1940s, and a couple from 1952. I had them converted to a CD and to paper prints a couple years before she passed in 2006. She did the identifications on all the pictures. I think Aunt Jan took most of them. Some were probably taken by her father David Wilson Latta. When he was a young teenager, he had a blackroom there at home in Monroe County, Ohio, and developed his own photos. He even thought he might like to be a professional photographer when he grew up, until a cousin said, "Give me a nickel's worth, Dave." He became a mechanical engineer instead.

Last modified November 6, 2015 by BK.

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