Janedith Ellen Latta

(Aunt Jan)

and her niece

Betty Jane Latta -- me

at my parents' home,

2421 E. Tuscarwas Street, Canton, Ohio

1943

Aunt Jan was always very special to me and to my cousins. She never married. She took care of the home of her parents-cooked, cleaned, sewed. She played countless games with me and my cousins, took us on special trips. She filled in when our parents were unavailable. We always knew we could go to their house at any time, that she and grandma would always be glad to see us. Aunt Jan was very loving and a lot of fun.

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 29, 2015 by BK.

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