Part I: The Slaback Family

Lila with her younger brothers, Earl and Looy, c. 1931

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I developed this chart using Ancestry.com and census records. Only people who were alive during Lila’s lifetime are listed; younger children and later generations are not. The fathers of Lila’s last four children are speculative but are included as a reference for readers.

Notes

I have no idea who originally took these family photographs. Some of them came from my mother’s sister, June. Others I inherited when my mother passed away.

The first section of this book, The Slaback Family, is told from Lila’s perspective using words and observations that a child (and later, a teenager) would make. As one of the younger children in a large family, she would not have received much attention from her parents. I imagine that her oldest sister, Izro, was more like a mother to her.