Saturday, August 13, 2005

Eleanor Lillian Snavely Smith Seibert and Robert Edward Smith

I thought you might enjoy seeing these photos of my grandparents, Eleanor Lillian Snavely Smith Seibert (1909-1994) and Robert Edward Smith ("Bob" or "Smitty" to his friends) (1905-1981). "Mom-Mom" and "Pappy," as we called them, had three children (David Paul [deceased 1993], Joyce Arminta Templon Anderson; and Donna Mae Robison Higginbotham), eight grandchildren, and numerous great- and great-great grandchildren, now located in areas as diverse as the State of Washington, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Washington, DC.

After Pappy's death, Mom-Mom remarried. Her second husband was Charles Seibert, a childhood friend.

These photos were most likely taken in the 1950's, when Mom-Mom (a licensed practical nurse) ran a convalescent home in Lakemont, Pennsylvania and Pappy (a horse teamster and later a welder for the Pennsylvania Railroad at the Samuel Rhea shops) was a member of the local riding club and a horse show judge.