Steve

Which place Donnybrook Lane or Thetford?

Which place Donnybrook Lane or Thetford?

Hospital??

Donnybrook or Thetford?

Donnybrook or Thetford?

In the summer of 1970, Jim and Ruth loaded Steve and their Beagle Holly into their pale yellow 1966 Plymouth Fury III convertible and made the nearly 3,000 mile drive from Towson, MD to Tustin, CA.

Red Hill Lutheran Church and School sit at 13200 Red Hill Avenue (right). The church also owned several residences that backed the church property. One of them included the grey house at 13232 Red Hill Avenue (left). When the family first arrived, they moved into the upstairs portion of the house.

A few months after moving into the small apartment beside the church, they bought this home 1.6 miles away at 14426 Silverbrook Drive.

The new family at the Pasadena Rose Parade in 1970.

Jim and Steve inside the Silverbrook Drive home.

Half of Paul, Danny, Lynn, Jim, baby Steve, Ruth, and Pat (where?? Sacramento capital?).

Steve, Jim, Ruth, Mildred, and Adolph standing outside Red Hill Lutheran Church.

1970: Jim’s first Christmas as a father.

1971 Christmas??

Ruth and Steve in the dining room at Pat and Mildred’s home while visiting Kingsville, MD.