more pictures

This is Obediah Wellington Rose and Emily Pinney with their children. This must have been about 1992 or 3 as Peal who is in the center was 3 years old when they came to California and Obediah has passed away before that. I know that Olive and Blanche were the other 2 girls and Carl was one of the boys.

More old pictures

My cousin Eleanor Martinez in Arizona sent me these pictures. She is the grandaughter of Dorothy MacDonald Aunt Blanche's daughter.

This is a picture of Pearl Rose Potter, Blanche Rose MacDonald and Olive Rose DeRemer. They are 3 sisters. Pearl is the youngest and Olive is the oldest. I remember all three of them and used to visit Aunt Olive in San Fernando. Uncle Ed and Aunt Olive had an orange grove and I remember Uncle Ed getting up very early in the morning to set out the smuge pots. After the 1933 earthquake in Long Beach my mother, sister and I lived at their house for a good 6 months.

This is my mother's sister, Lucille Potter Miller, Dorothy MacDonald(Aunt Blanche's Daughter), someone named Vera who I don't know and Evelyn, my mother. This picture is in Long Beach down by the Pier. I love to look at the clothes and notice the bathing suits on the people in the background.

old pictures

A cousin in Arizona sent me these pictures of our family. I had never seen a picture of Obediah Wellington Rose before.
He died when Pearl Potter (my grandmother) was 3 years old. This was before the Pinney family left Missouri by covered wagon and came to California. She has more pictures to send so I will blog them when I get them. I am not sure of the date on any of these or just when Emily married Mr. Roberts. After they were divorced or he passed away (I am not sure which) she married A J Potter,who was Milo Potter's father. This made Grandma Pearl and Grandpa Milo step brother and sister as well as man and wife. I know that Emily did not marry A J Potter untill some time after Pearl and Milo had been married for some years. Family history has so many stories.

Obediah Wellington Rose and Emily May Pinney Rose. This is a picture of Pearl Potter's parents.

Emily Pinney Rose

Emily Pinney Rose

Emily Rose Pinney Roberts Potter

Haven't posted anything on my blog for quite a while so decided I should. The month of June was a busy one. We went to Colorado for Chelsey's wedding and then tried to play catch up when we got home. The wedding was special even though there was rain,hail, ligtning and thunder. I was told by my therapist that a tradition in Mexico was that if it rained on your wedding day you would have a long and fruitful marriage. So Chelsey and Brad it sounds good for you.


When we came home we got busy moving fom the upstairs bedroom to the downstairs one. It was hard for me to do as we had such a comfortable one up there. No fireplace, no closet , 1 chest of drawers and not as much room besides the bathroom has 1 sink and is a bit crowed for 2 people. As David said I need to be flexible and make things work. We bought a portable closet to hang clothes and I put my other things in the cupboards in the bathroom. If I want something that isn't downstairs Dad has to go up and get it for me. After 3 months of not being up there I have forgotten just what is there. We bought a new mattress set so I can sleep in the bed instead of the hospital bed. Life does change and I am trying to be Flexible. Somehow it will have to work even though I don't like it.

Love reading the blogs and keeping up with the ones of you who keep them up. Of course I am guilty for not doing it either and will try to get better. Really have no excuse.