1950s family photos, Aunty Phyllis, Hipps, Uncle Ed and family, Sr. Gregory

Here are some 1950s Hon family photographs. We see Aunty Phyllis in most of them because she graduated and joined the convent in the 1950s, so it was her time to be the center of attention. Grandpa Carl F. Hon died in 1950. Again these photographs were loose in Mom's photograph album or in the back or in her wallet. I've put them in chronological order.

Mom, Aunty Frances, Aunty Phyllis, Grandma Hon and friend Violet Bennett, June 1952- Aunty Phyllis graduated from high school in St. Clair Shores, MI. How sharp and pretty the ladies look. Gloves, hat, heels, flowers. Very elegant.

Aunty Phyllis and Grandma, same day

friends Earl and Mary McMullen, Aunty Phyllis, Mom, Grandma, Uncle Carl, Jan. 1953. What would the occasion have been? A holy day of obligation or did someone get married?

Aunty Phyllis entered the Adrian Dominican convent in Adrian, MI, on June 27, 1953 and took final vows on Dec. 30, 1958 as Sr. Rosalia Marie.   Here in July 1953 visiting at the convent are Uncle Ed, his son Greg, Aunty Phyllis (dressed as a postulant), Uncle Carl, Grandma Hon, and Aunty Altamae wearing gloves

Same place, same day, Mom, Aunty Phyllis, Grandma Hon behind, Aunty Altaemae and Greg Hon

Same day, same place Grandma Hon, Aunty Phyllis looking very happy and very young, and another unidentified postulant

"About 1954 Park St.", a grainy photo of Michael Hipp, Uncle Cliff, Mom, Donnie in front, baby Wayne's head behind, Aunty Frances Hipp, Uncle Carl in Grand Rapids

Grandma Hon, Aunty Phyllis in white habit, Mom, at the Adrian Dominican Mother House, Jan. 31, 1953 [I think the date is wrong and it is later, 1954]. Grandma in a rabbit fur jacket.  I remember Mom wearing the coat she has on: it was blue wool with white/black fluff, I'm not sure if it was really fur. Aunty has now advanced to the white habit.

Uncle Carl and Aunty Phyllis in full black and white habit, Jan. 1955. From the couch I'm guessing this is the apartment Uncle Carl, Mom and Grandma Hon shared. This is the long, antique, pink couch I grew up with. I remember similar madagascars on it.

Grandma Hon and Aunty Phyllis in the same apartment by the same couch, Jan. 1955

portrait, 1955

Sr. Gregory [Gertrude] Mannheim looking very tiny, she must have been under 5' tall, and her older sister Grandma Hon, who is a head taller, Aug. 1958
I do not know where they are.  Maybe it's the apartment building Grandma, Uncle Carl, and Mom lived in in St. Clair Shores.

Sr. Gregory, Aunty Phyllis, and Sr. Gregory's companion in the shade in summer. I think of how hot they must have been and how many rashes they must have had on their necks. Bless them. I'm sure they, in the words of my Mom, "Offered it [their suffering] up to Jesus." I heard that phrase often growing it up. Probably the same day in Aug. 1958

Sr. Gregory and Mom, probably the same day, Aug. 1958

To learn more about Sr. Gregory or Aunty Phyllis see my prior posts about them.