My Trails into the Past

Wish to express Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in my family and in yours! Copyright © 2023 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.

I have written several posts about my mother, Lela Nell (Johnston) Hork. Here are synopsis and links to those posts. Fearless Females – Day 17 My mother was a social butterfly and joined organizations. This post described her high school years and Junior Woman’s Club. Mrs. William (Lea) Hork in Junior Woman’s Club This post is about the activities my mother was involved in with the Pittsburg Junior Woman’s Club which includes a photo of her standing next to Louis Armstrong. Celebrate Mother’s Day – Show Us Some Photos A post, part of Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, with lots of photos of my mother and me. 85 th Anniversary of My Mother, Lela Nell Johnston’s Birth Her birthday was August 21, 1934 and in 2019 I wrote a post with a story and photos. Three Things About Your Mother This past week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, I wrote about three ways my mother was creative. This is my fourth year working on this year-long 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, hosted by Amy Johns...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Nigh t again - Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings : 1)  Sunday is Mother's Day in the USA, and usually a time for memories and gratitude to our special birth person. 2)  For this week's SNGF, tell us three things about your mother that are special and memorable  to you. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post. Here's mine: My mother was Lela Nell (Johnston) Hork (1934-1992). She was born in Texas but came to California during the 1940s. She met my dad, William J Hork (1930-2007) at the Walnut Festival in 1951 and double-dated a week later. They married 19 April 1953 at Queen of All Saints Church in Concord. They had six children and I’m the oldest. 1. My mother was very artistic. She had a little studio in back o...

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) Sunday, 13 May is Mother's Day in the USA. Let's celebrate it by showing some of our photos with our mother. 2) Extra credit: What did you call your mother during her life? What did your children call your mother? 3) More extra credit: Have you written a biography or tribute to your mother? If so, please share a link if you have one. 4) Share your photo(s) on your own blog post or in a Facebook or Google + post. Leave a link on this blog post to help us find your Mom photos. I don't have a lot of photos with my mother but I do have some pretty special ones. These were all taken within the first year of my birth. The color one is from a slide--no idea who took it. I called my mother "Mommy" and then "Mom." My daughters called her Grandma Lea. Unfortunately, she died when they were really young and didn't know her well. This is ...