My father's family in 1918; Back Row, L-R: Ada Spargur (Dad's Mother, My Grandmother), Herschell Spargur (Dad's Father, My Grandfather); Gordon Spargur (Herschell's Youngest Brother); Granville Spargur (Herschell's Younger Brother); Irl F. Kennerly (Ada's Cousin and Husband of Herschell's Older Sister, Margene); Margene S. Kennerly (Herschell's Older Sister). Seated, L-R: Samuel Spargur (Dad's Grandfather, My Great Grandfather); Matilda Spargur (Dad's Grandmother, My Great Grandmother) holding my father, Vendrell L. Spargur.
My father and his first car in 1940. He had become a teacher.
My Dad, Captain Vendrell L. Spargur, home on leave in about 1943 during World War II with his parents, Ada and Herschell Spargur.
My father spent most of WWII in Panama. Here he is photographed with a big python snake.
My mother, Marcia Spargur (nee Cornwell) and my father exchanged photographs before they were married. This was the one my father received.
My father, Vendrell L. Spargur and my mother exchanged photographs before they were married. This was the one my mother received.
My father, Vendrell L. Spargur and my mother exchanged photographs before they were married. This was an alternate photograph my mother received.
My parents were married on January 2nd, 1945.
My father became a school teacher in Oakwood High School (Oakwood, Ohio, suburb of Dayton, Ohio) in 1947. This was one of his earliest yearbook pictures.
This where I came in: here is my father holding his newly born son, Richard C. Spargur, in 1949.
This was taken at a Spargur family reunion at Serpent Mound in Southern Ohio in about 1953. Pictured are my Father (wearing a cap) holding my brother and Dad's cousin Gordon Spargur, Junior, holding his son (Larry). I, Dick Spargur (about age four), am the other child.
This is a photograph of my father laughing something funny in either the late forties or the early fifties.
This is another photograph taken at a Spargur family reunion at Serpent Mound in Southern Ohio in about 1953. Pictured are my Father (wearing a cap) holding my brother and Dad's cousin Gordon Spargur, Junior, holding his son (Larry). I, Dick Spargur (about age four), am the other child.
My parents at a Christmas party in the 1990s.
My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1995.
