Mystery Photo Feedback

Dave and Bruce have both positively identified the mystery military man as their brother Peter. (Peter now thinks that it could be him, but still has no recollection of ever wearing a uniform with that much leather, or of attending an ROTC ball)

Dave writes:
Mystery photos: --- I am in there with Bruce. That is Peter for sure. I was going to write and claim that as soon as I saw it on the blog. But I did not want to be the winner right away again. So I waited until Bruce had a chance to show off his ability. Even Rosalie said right away, "That must be Peter." And she did not even know him then. He has a very distinctive look about him. I can recognize the spot, the lamp and almost the time period. That must be Peter in the living room in his ROTC uniform.

And those other photos --- The top one looks like Aunt Nell and Uncle Ed. The lower one is some other aunt and uncle, but I am not sure which. How are these for guesses. I am going to try to blow them up and enhance them. Is that cheating? Brings back farm trip memories though.


Bruce writes:
Well that's Aunt Nell and Uncle Ed in the top photo, with one of their girls. And the other old-timer might be Uncle Harm? I'm sure Viv will know.

And the more I look at it, the more I think that's Pete all dressed up for an ROTC ball. The only other possibility I can think of is Elmer Abrahamson -- I have a vague memory that Elmer and Pete may have double-dated to an ROTC ball.


Vivian writes:
Okay! The mystery photos are easy. Some at least. The old timers in the
first picture are Aunt Nell and Uncle Ed Nielsen (I'm not sure of i before e
or the other way around. I often spelled it wrong.)Nell was Dad (Ross)
Herr's older sister. They had two daughters, Betty Jean (who married Floyd
Whitney) and Doris who married (I have to look it up.).
The second photo is Uncle Harm (Harmon Herr) and Aunt Ollie. He was
Dad's eldest brother and Ollie was his second wife. (His first was Ray's
mother.)They were both killed in an automobile crash at an intersection on a
rural road. I have a copy of the newspaper article.
Every flower Ollie had in her garden was a "posy." Mom tried to
identify what kind of flower a "posy" was, but to Ollie they were all
"posies." And she had a lot of pretty ones.
We saw all four of them almost every time we went to Ohio.