From left to right, A friend, my mother, my grandmother and then another friend...Photo was taken in 1977, not long before my grandmother passed away at the age of 89...my mother was age 66 here and had already retired from her work as an insurance clerk at the Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Association where she had been employed since 1951.....The family moved out here from the mid-west in 1950 and my mother was working for a bank in Council Bluffs, Iowa as a bank clerk before we made the move to California....She was living with my grandparents, who had raised me from birth, after she had left my father, William, when she was living with him with my older brother and sister in Amarillo, Texas...She left my father in 1942 and was living with my grandmother ever since until the year 1979...My grandmother, Berenice, died in January, 1978, and left my mother all alone in the apartment they were renting on Towne avenue in Claremont, CA...in this photo, they are pictured here standing in front of my mother`s and grandmother`s apartment in Claremont on Towne Ave....So, in March, 1979, my mother left Claremont and her apartment and me and my sister and my niece, who also were living in a nice house in upper class, Claremont, while I had a middle class apartment in Upland, Calif with no furniture in it, what-so-ever, and this was the last time I ever saw my mother, to this day...If she is still living, she would be 94 years old now....

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