Friends
I think that Bud Hamm was Jeanne's BFF, to use today's vernacular.
Pictured are Bud and Jim's dog, Rouge, in 1964, at Thanksgiving dinner in an Oglebay Park cabin. Jim and Chris had rented the cabin with college friends.
These women, Jeanne's sister Madeline, second from the right, and from L to R her sisters-in-law, Florence, (our Aunt Toots), Mary, and Esther, were among Jeanne's best girl-friends. She not only knew them the longest in her lifetime, but they always seemed to have great relationships and shared life's events, both good and bad, for most of their lives.
Aunt Mary with Amy, in Oglebay. Mary was always a good sport, ready at the drop of a hat to play basketball with the kids, or do most anything else that someone wanted to do.
Aunt Esther was a different story. She lead a more sedentary life than did her sister, Mary.
Aunt Esther with Chris at Esther's, early 1960's
Aunt Florence, aka Tootsie or Toots, had married Fred Hahn and had moved to Cleveland as early as the 1950's. We saw her much less frequently, but she always had her beautiful smile on.
Aunt Madeline also married and lived in northern Ohio with her husband Johnny. Jeanne and Madeline were not the most close of sisters, but loved each other and shared the common bond of sisterhood and love of family.
Pictured are Jim and Harry Hesse, circa 1963.
Harry and Ginger Hesse were two of Jeanne and Bud's most favorite couples.
It was at Jeanne's 28th birthday party at the Hesse's home when they learned of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, while dancing to music playing on the radio.
When Jeanne was on the Price is Right TV show and had to return to New York for the third day as Champion, she and Ginger Hesse traveled back to NY to participate in the show.
And it was Herry Hesse's cars that Bud and Jeanne purchased every time Harry was about to buy his next new car. Unfortunately, we do not have a photo of Ginger Hesse. We also do not have a photo of Jeanne's golfing buddy, Marge Good, who lived across the street from the Hesse's.
Mary Turk and her husband Stan, at left of Mary, were long time friends who lived in Jeanne's later years as neighbors at the Williamsburg Condos. Their son, Steve, was a boyhood friend of John Hamm's at Linsly. Mary Turk introduced John to homemade onion rings in her kitchen when John was 10 or 11 years old.
John (8-9) and Jim (15-16) with an unnamed friend of the family's at Aunt Mary's, circa 1956
Jeanne with one of her Williamsburg neighborhood girl friends.
Jeanne, with John Coleman's brother and others in New Port Richey, FL, circa, 1977
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