More Archived Pictures

12/41 before 3/42 tornado claiming
father & mother's lives (w/Claradell)

Charlotte, N.C/1980
Annabelle, Claradell, Rita Rae
June,1941(tornado-March,1942)
Three daughters of Paul and Grace Gergely; Annabelle, Claradell, and Rita Rae
taken three months before the Goshen, Indiana tornado claiming lives of Paul and Grace
After their decease, surviving daughters became wards of Clarence E. Baker, guardian; i.e., Claradell from 1942-1956
Two photos below from Clarence E. Baker personal memorabilia.
Left: May have been around 1944 while 9 and living with Glenn and Ethel Brake. Am wearing a tan suit made by Ethel. The collar made by Aunt Rena Cain Eide and necklace from Rena and Austin Eide when I was about 7. Both items are 66 years old. Photo below taken 11/21/08.
Right: When I was 10/11, Glenn and Ethel Brake insisted I take voice lessons. Photo in a long peach-colored dress made for one of my voice recitals, which were often held at the Hotel Ft. Des Moines. (I had won a KRNT Saturday morning talent contest singing "The Desert Song.")
Claradell at All Saints in 1949
North High Hall of Fame
Left: Cover of Picture Magazine, Des Moines Register & Tribune; February 3, 1952; Des Moines, IA.
(Claradell won two state skating titles wearing these skates.)
Right: North Des Moines High School Tennis Team; (won Des Moines City Doubles Championship).
Inscription by Teresa Anderson, Women's Athletic Director
 
Cheerleader;
North High, '51,'52,'53
1954 Drake University
Quad Yearbook Finalist
for Miss Drake
Claradell's 50th Reunion;
North Des Moines High School;
June 20, 2003
West Point, 1957;
Saturday Night Hop
KRNT-TV;
1955
Executive Ass't to Carl Karcher
(Carl's Jr. Restaurants/now Hardee's)
1966; Anaheim, CA
     
Annapolis with Midshipman;
June Week
  Harry/West Point
Golf Course
  Harry/Cover of 1958
Army Sports Handbook
  West Point;
June Week
Engaged; Philadelphia;
November, 1957;
Army-Navy Game
February, 1958
West Point Hop
Flirtation Walk;
West Point, 1957
P-rade;
February, 1958
Engaged; Philadelphia;
November, 1957;
Army-Navy Game
February, 1958
West Point Hop

Flirtation Walk;
West Point, 1957

Flirtation Walk, West Point

At A Hop Trophy Point on the Hudson
June Week Grad Hop; 1958
June 5, 1958;
West Point
June 5, 1958;
West Point
photo coming photo coming
caption coming Harry L. Shedd;1958
(Second Lieutenant/after Artillery,
Paratroop, & Intelligence Schools/
Fort Lawton, OK; Fort Bliss, TX;
Fort Benning, GA; Fort Gordon, GA;
Ft. MacArthur, CA)
caption coming
Same location as wedding above,
50 years later; May 26, 2008
Annual Christmas Tours;'89-'03
(at our home - 500 attend each year)
May 27, 2008; New York City
Seattle Rose Society Annual Show
Ballerina Musk
Trumpeter Floribunda
3 Blues/Seattle Rose Society
At Boeing: Senator Barry Goldwater, Ray Utterstrom (designer and
Program Manager of the Air-Launched Cruise Missile,
as well as Chief Engineer, 737), Claradell (his assistant),
Colonel Dennis Sharon (Aide to Senator Goldwater and Harry's West Point classmate)
This prototype of the cruise missile is now in the Smithsonian.

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