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Here, gathered in our beloved South Dakota, are a few members of our Williamson / Mattson Clan. Charles and Luella are to be blamed (be kind, they didn't know what they were doing). We're generally a happy bunch and somewhat intelligent (notwithstanding our tenuous grasp on reality). I'm also proud to say that most of us still have our teeth.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Our Grand Uncle, Walter LeRoy Pierce. Baby Photo. Mattson Lines



From the Fortress of Solitude
Pleasant Grove


Grand Uncle Walter LeRoy Pierce


Hello All,
     A short post today.  This is a newly found picture of our Grand Uncle (Great Uncle), brother to Grandma Violet Mattson taken at Scottsbluff, Nebraska when he was 8 months old.  May of 1917.   He died on July 3, 1987. 
     When Walter LeRoy Pierce was born on September 7, 1916, in Nebraska, his father, Walter Edwin Pierce was 31 and his mother, Vesta Althea Dennis, was 24.  He had one child, Diana, with wife Vivian Eldee Withrow.  He died on July 3, 1987, in Santa Clara, California, at the age of 70.





Great Grandmother Vesta with her two children, Walter LeRoy and Violet May