These 1958 beauty pageant photographs of Jonathan's Aunt Linda were too fun not to share. Apparently she was Jumpertown High School's Most Beautiful in 1958. Beauty pageants have never been my thing, but in these photographs, they seem pretty charming.
Isn't she pretty?
I love the expressions on the kids' faces...
Pretty dresses.
Love this shot from the audience.
Linda's pretty dress.
The tiara and flowers are pretty funny.
I'm in the middle of a photo book for Sadie's sister Linda, so I've been scanning and editing all sorts of fun photographs. Linda is the youngest of the Yates' sisters, and she graduated from Jumpertown High School in Jumpertown, Mississippi in 1961. Jumpertown is a small rural community located just outside of Booneville in Prentiss County.
Aren't they cute? Linda is the third from the left on the bottom row.
The Jumpertown High School Class of 1961. Linda is on the bottom row on the far right.
I love this yearbook photograph all of the girls in front of Jumpertown School. (The back of the photo actually has the job, page and position number on it.)
The senior class all dressed up for prom or their school banquet. Linda is in the center.
The Jumpertown High School Class of 1961. I graduated from Booneville High School in 2002, and Torrance School Photography took our class photographs as well!
The love of my life turned 35 on Monday, so I thought it was fitting to share some fun childhood (and adulthood) photos to commemorate this milestone birthday. The 1980s-1990s photos are courtesy of his Aunt Linda.
It's hard to believe I've celebrated ten birthdays with this amazing man. Happy Birthday, Jonathan. I love you and this crazy life we've built together.
Ten-month-old Jonathan with his great-grandfather Clovis Yates.
Jonathan and his sister Julie in matching Ole Miss shirts with their cousin Michael.
Baby Jonathan with his great-grandfather Clovis Yates.
Cousins.
Jonathan and his cousin Michael.
Jonathan in our apartment two months after we moved to Memphis, July 6, 2006.
Jonathan, Oscar, Eliza and Julie, July 7, 2006.
Denise, Jonathan and Sadie, July 7, 2006.
My dad, Eliza, Anthony, Lauren and Jonathan celebrating his birthday in our first home, July 2010.
Jonathan, Oliver, Julie and Eliza, July 7, 2010.
Enjoying a birthday breakfast in Hermosa Beach, California, July 7, 2011.
Greg, Eliza, Jonathan and Anthony celebrating Jonathan's birthday in downtown Memphis, July 2012.
Me and Jonathan celebrating at the Overton Park Shell, July 2013.
Oliver and Porter a few weeks before we moved out of our first house, July 2013.
Jonathan celebrating 34 at Boscos, July 7, 2013.
Jonathan and Porter at Shelby Farms, July 2013.
Jonathan celebrating with Gerald, Denise and Josh (and the rest of his family), July 2013.
Jonathan, Eliza and Anthony, July 2013.
After watching the Germantown fireworks, July 4, 2014.
It's a day for beautiful, turn-of-the-century photographs of our families. The top photo is Jonathan's great-grandmother Eliza (back left) and her sisters. The middle photo is my great-grandmother Tina and her family. She is front and center. The bottom photo is my other great-grandmother Elsie and her sister Myrtle. Eliza's family lived in Prentiss County, Mississippi, Tina's family lived in Naples, Italy and Elsie's family lived in Lancaster, Ohio. The time period would be about the same for all of them. What would they have thought if they had known they would be linked together someday?
