I wanted to put a few of my favorite pictures of Nana on the blog and this turned into me finding more pictures than I was originally thinking so this will be at multiple part series. I tried my best to put them in chronological order. We love our sweet Nana.
Ina Pearl Rogers was born to Aldridge William Rogers and
Ada Lee Spencer Rogers on August 30, 1920.
She was their first child, followed by a boy - William Rogers
With an August birthday she was one of the older kids in class and Ampa always gave her a hard time for being 10 months older than her.
I thought it was soooo funny when I was a kid.
This is her with her fellow Windom Elementary School students.
She is the second from the right in the middle row - sporting blank bangs. :)
She graduated high school in 1938 along side Jack Cobb Luttrell - my Ampa.
She is in the front row, third from the right and he is in the front row on the right.
When we were younger he loved to tell us how he would walk to her house and walk all the way back home - just to visit her. I think the visits involved sitting in the living room with her parents talking.
He loved her fiercely and I knew that from a very young age.
I got a lot of these pictures from a slide show my sweet Aunt Jackie had made for Nana's 90th birthday party. I hadn't seen this picture before and couldn't believe how much my cousin, Jenny, looks like her.
This is the farm house she grew up in. Her niece added a second floor and lives there today. She was born in this home and married in this home.
After high school she continued to date Jack and they married October 12, 1941
Cecil and I chose to get married on the same date - 71 years later.
Of course, Pearl Harbor was bombed less than two months after they got married.
Jack was farming with her Dad and was able to stay out of the war for awhile.
But he did eventually have to leave. He went to Korea on a large ship and would talk about it often at the end of his life. He frequently would mention meeting a young boy that he wish he could have brought back home with him.
Four years later they had a boy - my Dad.
Roger Boyd Luttrell
Nana is in the center here with her two children standing in front of her.
Here she is with her two children, including my Dad being silly.
Mother and daughter. They were quite the pair. The best of friends.
Aunt Jackie, Dad, Nana, and Ampa (and dog Henry) in front of their farm house that burned June 1968. Nana would cry when she talked about losing this home and all the possessions inside.
She lost all her family heirlooms.
Ina Pearl Rogers was born to Aldridge William Rogers and
Ada Lee Spencer Rogers on August 30, 1920.
She was their first child, followed by a boy - William Rogers
Here she is with family. She is standing on the right side of the picture in front of her Dad.
She grew up on a farm in Windom, Texas.
She is in the center bottom row of this picture, fourth from the right.
She always had bangs as a kid.
I'm thinking I get my jet black hair from her. ;)
I thought it was soooo funny when I was a kid.
This is her with her fellow Windom Elementary School students.
She is the second from the right in the middle row - sporting blank bangs. :)
She graduated high school in 1938 along side Jack Cobb Luttrell - my Ampa.
She is in the front row, third from the right and he is in the front row on the right.
When we were younger he loved to tell us how he would walk to her house and walk all the way back home - just to visit her. I think the visits involved sitting in the living room with her parents talking.
He loved her fiercely and I knew that from a very young age.
I got a lot of these pictures from a slide show my sweet Aunt Jackie had made for Nana's 90th birthday party. I hadn't seen this picture before and couldn't believe how much my cousin, Jenny, looks like her.
This is the farm house she grew up in. Her niece added a second floor and lives there today. She was born in this home and married in this home.
Cecil and I chose to get married on the same date - 71 years later.
Of course, Pearl Harbor was bombed less than two months after they got married.
Jack was farming with her Dad and was able to stay out of the war for awhile.
But he did eventually have to leave. He went to Korea on a large ship and would talk about it often at the end of his life. He frequently would mention meeting a young boy that he wish he could have brought back home with him.
After the war, they continued their life on the farm and welcomed a baby girl in February 1950.
Jacquline Lyn Luttrell
I'm named after her - Kelli Lyn Luttrell. :)
Four years later they had a boy - my Dad.
Roger Boyd Luttrell
Here she is with her two children, including my Dad being silly.
Mother and daughter. They were quite the pair. The best of friends.
Aunt Jackie, Dad, Nana, and Ampa (and dog Henry) in front of their farm house that burned June 1968. Nana would cry when she talked about losing this home and all the possessions inside.
She lost all her family heirlooms.
Neither Nana nor Ampa were able to go to college and they strongly stressed the importance of education and worked hard to provide their children with the best they could.
Jackie graduated from Honey Grove High School in 1968 - and that summer the house burned.
She had planned to go to Texas Tech, but needed to stay closer to home.
She graduated from East Texas State University in 1972.
Jackie graduated from Honey Grove High School in 1968 - and that summer the house burned.
She had planned to go to Texas Tech, but needed to stay closer to home.
She graduated from East Texas State University in 1972.
Roger graduated from Honey Grove High School in 1972 and attended Austin College.
He played football and graduated in 1977 with a Masters in Education.
He said Nana and Ampa traveled to most (if not all) of his games - home and away.
After the farm house burned, Nana and Ampa moved into town in Honey Grove.
They eventually moved to this home on Bois D'arc Road.
This was their home through the end of their lives.
Nana worked for Honey Grove ISD as a bookkeeper.
I have been told that she worked up until they introduced computers, and then she retired. :)
They eventually moved to this home on Bois D'arc Road.
This was their home through the end of their lives.
Nana worked for Honey Grove ISD as a bookkeeper.
I have been told that she worked up until they introduced computers, and then she retired. :)
Nana and Ampa always had close friends, and after their kids left the nest, they were able to travel. Here are a few couple pictures of them traveling with friends.
My parents were married April 28, 1978.
My Mom's parents are next to her and Dad's parents are next to him.
My Mom's parents are next to her and Dad's parents are next to him.
Ampa served as my Dad's best man.
I just love this picture of Ampa laughing and smoking a cigarette.
William and Pauline (Nana's brother and sister in law) are between the two of them.
Ampa was always the life of the party and Nana loved being right there with him.
This is outside my parents first home in Houston.
Jackie and Tom were married May 17, 1980.
This brings us to her "Nana" years and I'll start that in another post.
Of course there are a lot more pictures of the most recent years.
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