THE EARLY YEARS
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Aunt Genieva, Uncle Glenn& Mom
[Late 1940s]


Uncle Greer & Mom
[Mid-1940s]


Baxter H. & Dovie C. [Rollins] Valentine and  Gertrude, ca 1921


Jack Allen & Mom
[First Step-Father Early 1940s]


Mama Valentine & Mammy Greene
[Mid-1940s]


Tank Co., 278th RCT TN NG
Cleaning that big mutha!
Ft. McClellan, AL 8/1954


Uncle Cecil Allen & Friend
[After Aleutian Isl. Campaign
w/1st Special Svc Force]


Poppa & Mama Valentine
Xmas ca 1940-44



Will Rollins Family
Dovie is in rear holding Jettie.
abt 1910-1915


Uncle Jay & Genieva [Valentine] Proffitt
ca early 1950s



Me on 3-day pass from
E Co., 325th AIR 1955
 


Aunt Helen Allen & I
On 3-day Pass, Late 1955


High School Buddies
Wayne Williams, Wayne Boatman and his dad, Bufford Boatman


Rear L-R: Baxter & Sally.
Front:  Otis, William L., Rachael [Baxter], Houston.  Ailey in lap.
William L. Valentine Family
ca 1902

 


Mom with guitar at Mama & Poppa Valentine's where I was born.  [The "Old Berry place" about 5 miles south of Sweetwater on left of hwy just past a large dairy farm.  It was owned by Howell's Nursery at the time.  Burned down later.] ca 1937