Effie Jane (Schaub) Latta

playing a game with her daughter-in-law and son

Ruth Genevieve (Walker) Latta

Zelvon David Latta

1930s

Grandma always played with us. We (my cousin Don and I) played Monopoly by the hours with her and Aunt Jan. She taught me to play solitaire then canasta, samba, and other card games. When grandpa came home from Chicago for the weekend and all their adult children were in the living room talking, she would play with us grandkids at the dining room table. We were very loved. I try to pass on this tradition with lots of playing with my own three grandkids here in Indiana and the two in Texas too.

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.

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