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This wonderful keepsake photograph captures the fifth grade class at Union Elementary School in Union (now Midvale), Utah in 1937. It captures the styles of the times and the poverty that many people were still experiencing following the Great Depression if judging clothes is any indicator. I love the crossing guard in the front row.
This companion photograph was taken the same day as the previous photograph. On the back row is my grandfather Justin Gerald Pugmire. Left to right in the middle row are Norval Pugmire, Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom Pugmire, Justin Pugmire, Elenore Pugmire, Pearl Pugmire, Roy Steadman who is the husband of Betsy Josephine Pugmire and Clyde Pugmire. […]
I found this wonderful photograph among my mother’s belongings. The man in the middle with the white beard is my grandfather Justin Gerald Pugmire (1892-1949 ). He is the oldest child in the family of Justin ( 1866-1956 ) and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom Pugmire (1870-1958 ). His arms are around his parents. On my grandfather’s […]