Saturday, March 5, 2016

Albert and Ottillie Leeson


The following pages are from the Leeson familly section of the Family Ancestry Photograph Album I began creating in the 1970s. Family ancestry information has been posted previously. Use the Archives, scrolling downward and reading each previous post.

When Arthur Frank Vanek and Mona Inez Leeson wed on August 31, 1949 they linked the following family trees, [Maternal ~ Muench and Leeson] [Paternal ~ Vanek and Gremaux].


  
Although no pictures exist of the November 23, 1929 wedding of Albert Edward Leeson and Ottillie Muench, I was able to design the above picture page after our granddaughter, 11-year-old Valerie Lynn Vanek, modeled her great-grandmother, Tillie's wedding dress and veil, including the picture of my mother in her bridal finery, that I 'created'.
 
Al and Tillie had a home wedding on Emil & Rosalie's house at Chester, Washington. Ottillie 'Tillie' descended their farmhouse stairs dressed in an oyster-white calf-length dress beaded with tiny pearls and rhinestone scrolls around skirt, and a white floor-length veil crowned with a wax-petaled orange blossoms headband.