RL & Dorothy Holder photo albums - album #70

RL & Dorothy Holder photo album #70, early to mid 70s

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above: dad, Charles Nehring, Chuck Chernosky

Dad, Charles Nehring (a big man who served in the USMC and worked for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company - got dad the clear epoxy paint that dad put on our 16 foot McWhorter mahogany outboard boat) and Chuck Chernosky (a real estate agent who I later did odd jobs for on various properties while attending University of Houston, never knew him with anything but white hair) were the best of friends. They were all members of First Presbyterian Church (seems like 5300 Main St, Houston) and were in those days deacons (dad later was an elder for many years). Although dad had many acquaintances from work at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, few were friends that he hunted with, fished with, did Masons with; most of mom and dad's friends that they went on church retreats with, partied with, went on cruises with, went on vacations with were (pretty much life long) friends from church. Anyway, dad and Charles and Chuck were quite the pranksters. One year in the mid '50s Chuck took his family, Norma, Chuckie and Bobby, on vacation to New York City, he drove his brand spankin' new 1957 Plymouth Fury and on the expressway he ran out of gas and so passers by got to see this Fury on the side of the road with Texas license plates and this long tall Texan pouring Jack Daniels into the gas nozzle. Well, while he was gone dad and Charles were to keep an eye on Chuck's house, collect mail and newspapers and put inside, mow grass, etc. and while they were at it... they rigged the door from the garage into the house such that when it was opened the stereo would turn on and drop a record (sound volume on BLARING) with Elvis Presley singing 'You ain't nothing but a hound dog' - which by the way a new and very popular song at the time and which Chuck said he was really tierd of hearing having heard it all the way to New York and back, and, AAAAAND, what do you want to do as soon as you get home from being on the road for a long time - go to the bathroom, welllll, dad and Chuck wired the toilet lids down with coat hangers. Next to go on vacation was Charles and Vineta, and, while gone dad and Chuck were to keep an eye on his house, sooooo, they took all the furniture from the den and moved it to one of the bedrooms, rolled up the den rug and put it at one end of the room, took all the glasses from the cabinets and put diluted tea in them (to look like alcohol and melted ice and put cigarette butts in some of them, filled all the ash trays with butts, messed up their bed to look "slept" in and generally made it look like one heck of a party occurred. Next to go on vacation was dad, mom, Pam and me and Chuck and Charles were to keep an eye on our house while gone. Well, they knew an insurance agent from church who could get a huge tent that could be put over the house that said "THIS PROPERTY DESTROYED BY FIRE - PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY." Charles died waaaaaay too young in 1957 when one of those new turbo-prop passenger airplanes blew up mid-flight from Houston to Dallas; dad was asked to identify remains and the only remains found was Charles' thumb... I've had VERY LITTLE use for air planes since Charles' early demise. Pam says I should have my head examined - "you ride a motorcycle and wont get on an airplane?" to which I reply "statistically speaking flying is the safest way to die?" Vineta went on to use her college education to get friends to allow her to invest their money for them - the beginning of share holding companies - and she became very well off in that endeavor.

below: mom, Elanor Forney, Vineta Nehring

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below left: dad
below right: Dottie Vickery, Elanor Forney, Norma Chernosky, mom

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below left: Ed Vickery (partner in Royston, Razor and Cook Attorneys at Law (worked for him at the law firm while attending University of Houston)), Dottie Vickery, Norma Chernosky, AKKKK!!! Pam HELP!!! Mrs. Norman??? what was her name??? dad driving

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below left: Ed and Dottie Vickery
below right: J.P. Forney, mom, Chuck Chernosky

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below left: mom, Chuck Chernosky

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below left: mom and dad
below right: Chuck and Norma Chernosky

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below left: mom and Elanor Forney
below right: Birdie McCaren, AKKKK!!! Pam HELP!!! Mrs. ______???, mom

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below left and right: AKKKK!!! Pam HELP!!! Mrs. Norman??? what was her name??? Elanor Forney, Norma Chernosky, Dottie Vickery, mom

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below left: Chuck Chernosky and J.P. Forney
below right: Dad, J.P. Forney, mom, Elanor Forney

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below left: AKKKK!!! Pam HELP!!! Mrs. Norman??? what was her name??? Ed Vickery, AKKKK!!! Pam HELP!!! Val Norman??? dad, Chuck Chernosky, Copper McCaren
below right: Dad, ?, ?, Copper McCaren, ?, Elanor Forney?

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below left: J.P. Forney, dad
below right: Chuck Chernosky, dad, J.P. Forney

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below left: mom, Norma and Chuck Chernosky
below right: J.P. Forney, dad

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below left: pam and grandpa (Earl Shanks, mom's dad)
below right: pam and grandma (Marie Shanks, mom's mom)

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below left: pam
below right: dad, grandma and grandpa

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below: 555 Three Corners, Houston (Hunters Creek Village), Texas
below left: Elba, Sister Lucy Marie, Sister Rose Annel
below right: AKKKK!!! Pam HELP!!! _______???

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below left: mom, grandpa and grandma
below right: mom, dad and grandma

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below: grandparents Shanks residence: 2524 NW 23rd Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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below: 4309 Stillbrook, Houston, Texas

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below: Pam, dad's pride and joy, my good looking sister
(the bricks here at 4309 Stillbrook, Houston, Texas 77035 were used for the background image)

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