School photos. All of these children were raised in Wilkes County, N.C. The photos were taken in the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s. Top row, left to right:
Mildred Catherine Vannoy Steelman (1928-2005). Called Cat or Catherine, she was the only child of William Raynor Vannoy and my grandmother's sister Lacy Florence McNeil Vannoy. Cat was a biology teacher at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, and she was my teacher! Neither she nor I ever said anything. She was a really good teacher.
Edward McNeil (1916-1963). Ed was the youngest brother of my grandmother. Ed had a wonderful sense of humor and most photos show him smiling.
James Neil Snyder (1922-1993). Called Jimmy or Neil, he was the oldest surviving son of my grandparents, Wiley Thomas Snyder and Nora Bessie McNeil Snyder. They had two sons who died as infants -- one older that Jimmy and one younger, so Jimmy was very much appreciated by his parents. He joined the U.S. Coast Guard at the outbreak of WWII and made a career of it. He married a woman who lived in Gloucester (Aunt Kay) and had a Gloucester accent. You'd never know he was raised in the South!
The remaining people are living (Mozelle and Bette).
The blank spaces were blank in 1981 when I wrote down my grandmother's information.
