Baby Thelma (ca. 1924).
Baby Thelma (ca. 1924).
Thelma, sister Ruth, and sister Eunice (ca. 1925).
This pen and ink drawing (by neice Dru) of the old Thomas home hung on Thelma’s bedroom wall.
This pen and ink drawing (by neice Dru) of the Lower Donaldson School hung on Thelma’s bedroom wall.
Thelma in bib overalls, everyday wear on the farm (ca. 1937).
Graduation from Trigg Co. High School (1940).
Thelma at business school (ca. 1940s).
The Thomas Family — Back/siblings: Herschel, Eunice, Ruth, Thelma, Guy, Fred, Lottie, Olen Ray — Front/parents: Taylor and Myrt (ca. late 1940s).
Graduation from George Peabody College for Teachers — now part of Vanderbilt University (ca. 1947).
Howard and Thelma (ca. late 1940s, early 1950s).
Engagement portrait (1950).
Engagement announcement (1950).
Wedding (07 April 1950).
After the ceremony — off to the Peabody Hotel in Memphis for the honeymoon (07 April 1950).
Working on their house on Thistlewood Avenue in Nashville TN. I think I see Chewning ankles... (ca. early 1950s).
Howard and Thelma on Donaldson Creek (ca. early 1950s).
Howard and Thelma on Donaldson Creek (ca. early 1950s).
Howard in his Army Reserve uniform and Thelma (ca. early 1950s).
Thelma on Old Ironsides in Boston Harbor (ca. early 1950s).
Thelma, nephews David, Bill, and Jerry Sumner, and Howard – Thelma and Howard had just purchased the tractor (from Olen & Martha, ca.1954).
Mother-in-law Beulah with newborn Howie, and Thelma (1954).
The Faculty Center: Thelma marked the windows of their apartment on this postcard sent to sister Ruth (1955).
Thelma with newborn Cindy (1955).
Cindy assisting Thelma in the kitchen in the Faculty Center apartment (1957).
Thelma holds Mark, while Howie and Cindy manage the stroller (1957).
Reading Xmas stories to the children. Thelma would clip stories from various women's magazines and substitute the children’s names into them. In a particular favorite, there were only two children, so Mark got to be the cat (1957).
Cindy, Thelma, and Howie in their Easter finery (1958).
Domestic Thelma (ca. early 1960s).
The wedding party at Martha and Olen&srquo;s wedding (sister-in-law and brother); Thelma & Howard at right with Cindy. (1960).
Dressed to party: Al Crawford, Betty Evans, Courtney Crawford, Thelma, and Howard (ca. 1960s).
On the deck of the King Cottage in Pine Point ME – Howie, Mark, Thelma, Howard, and Cindy (1962).
On the deck of the Big House in Pine Point ME – Howie, Mark, Queenie the dog, father-in-law Howard Sr., Thelma, and Howard (ca. 1965).