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From left to right, my older brother, John, and then me at age 13 or 14...My brother is four years older than me so he would be eighteen in this photo..We are pictured here in front of our house which was located on the corner of Wisconsin and Alvarado streets in Pomona, Calif.....this was our second residence in Pomona...We moved three times, in all, while living in Pomona and while I was growing up in this city and attending public schools...The reason my brother, here, looks so, rather, disgusted with everything is because we just got out of church, the Presbyterian Church, to be exact...My mother and grandmother were very religious people and made us kids attend church every Sunday...My Grandmother died in January, 1978 at the age of 89, just one month before her 90th birthday...My mother was then living in an apartment on Towne avenue in Claremont, CA with my grandmother, a two bedroom apartment, and she literally went to pieces right after my grandmother died since she had always depended on her, and vise virsa, so now she, all of a sudden, was all alone...My mother was at the age of 66 at the time..I was living in a motel in Pomona at this particular time, also..I never attended my grandmother`s funeral, but everyone else did, including my niece, who was 19 years old at the time of this event, and also my sister did attend the funeral....I was not in contact at all with either my niece, my sister or my second brother-in-law, Arnold, at this particular time in history and during this event...My sister got divorced from Kenneth, my first brother-in law, in 1964 and then she found this, Arnold, A college professor at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, and whom I do not care much for at all, but we won`t go there... And my sister, Dorothy Lee and Arnold have a nice house up there in Claremont....But that is more information on my background for those who might be interested....Please click on photo for larger image......