By Charlie at Pasty Central (Chopper) on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 07:57 am:
Today's Shoebox Memory has several direct connections with the Pasty Cam. Our story begins near Brighton, England, where Phyllis and Dorothy (top photo) were daughters of Arthur and Annie Kettley. Arthur has appeared on these pages before:
Picture of the day - June 16, 2005
Last month the Pasty Cam featured stories of folks crossing the Atlantic on the Titanic. This is a story about a family that didn't take that voyage. According to Phyllis (who was 5 years old at the time), she had an untimely case of Chicken Pox (or timely, however you look at it). The family ended up finding other passage across to North America, where Arthur had been reassigned to Canada.
Phyllis eventually emigrated to the U.S., where she married Frank Covert. (Side note: Grandma and Grandpa Covert loved to explore Northern Michigan, and had a few adventures to tell.) The Coverts had two daughters, who also appeared in a previous Shoebox Memory:
Picture of the day - July 3, 2005
Thelma is the one on the left, and also in the third Big Picture above. She married Jerry Cobb, and became a Mom herself, with the birth of her first child - a daughter - in 1953. This happens to be my wife Edie, who researches our facts on 
