Treasure Chest Thursday – Postcards from Great-Grandma, Part 2

Here is the next in the series of my great-grandma Mae Johnson’s postcards to my mother from 1959.

Postmarked 2-26-1959

Hi Mary, We have a nice hotel to stay overnight. Have to get up tomorrow at 5 o’clock to get out 6:15 bus to Jacksonville. Love, Grandma

Treasure Chest Thursday – Postcards from Great-Grandma

I have a few postcards that my Great-Grandma Mae Johnson wrote to my mother during the winter of 1959 when Mae and her husband Alfred traveled to Florida for their annual trip.  These are truly a treasure to me.  I never knew Mae and never heard her voice, but reading these postcards helps me to hear her.  I will post one a week for the next several weeks on Treasure Chest Thursday.

The first postcard from West Virginia on their way down to Florida. (Front of card)

Dear Mary,
Had a nice trip not too cold down here
Love
Grandma + Grandpa
(postmarked 2-25-1959)

Wordless Wednesday – Mae Johnson (1892-1971)

Talented Tuesday – Alfred Johnson

This is a picture of my step-great grandfather, Alfred Johnson (far left) and his quartet.  I have no idea what they were called or at what type of events they sang.  Alfred married my great-grandmother, Mae, in 1925 (she had been married twice before).

Al and Mae Johnson, circa 1925

Al Johnson’s tombstone in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Detroit