25 July 1943, at the First Brethren Church in West Kittanning, Pennsylvania, the wedding of Percy J. Marshall and Betty M. Shankle. This was their only wedding photograph. Both the church in which they were married and the studio responsible for their wedding pictures burned that summer!
A photo taken in the 1940s
Mom's high school graduation photo. She graduated in 1941 from Kittanning High School in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Dad's high school graduation photo. He graduated from Kittanning High School in 1940.
Mom and the Shankle Family's dog Rex. Mom is wearing her uniform for her post-high school job at the Kittanning Woolworth's store.
From Dad's stint in the U. S. Army. He received a medical discharge on account of rheumatic fever before the outbreak of World War II.
Dad and Mom as part of the wedding party for Jack and Wilma Shankle. Uncle Jack was one of her older brothers.
And Mom as a member of the wedding party for Norman and Mary Alice Bennett's wedding
Dad and his Chevy--early 1950s
The family at Christmas 1957, in our home on Pine Hill--now part of West Kittanning, Pennsylvania. We moved into this house in 1955, and they still live there as they celebrate their 65th!
Dad, the expert fisherman, from one of his many Canadian fishing expeditions (1953).
Having fun at one of the Marshall Family Reunions--1970s?-- when games were part of the day's agenda.
Mom at her very best, as homemaker and cook. Making a good home for her family has been her life's work.
With the Marshall grandchildren, Jennifer and Adam, at Niagara Falls in about 1980. Jennifer has a good story about what immediately preceded this picture.
With the Hawk grandchildren, Jared, Joshua, Matthew, at the Marshall home on Pine Hill.
One of many photos from their road trip through the West in 1987.
High above the world, at the viewing platform on Bickel's Knob, north of Elkins, West Virginia, in 2000. You see Virginia on the horizon.
With their grandchildren, about 2002. From the left, Adam Marshall, Matthew Hawk, Katina Marshall (Adam's wife), Joshua Hawk, Jennifer Marshall, and Jared Hawk.
Welcoming their first great-grandchild, Eli Marshall, to their home in West Kittanning (Summer 2003)
Percy Marshall and great-grandson Eli Marshall, looking each other over. Summer 2003.
Karen Marshall Hawk, Kelly Marshall, Percy and Betty Marshall at their Pine Hill home in 2005. It was Mom's 83rd birthday.
Celebrating their 65th with family at the Marshall Reunion and Picnic, 09 August 2008, near Kittanning
With grandsons Matthew Hawk (left) and Jared Hawk at Matthew's wedding on 29 August 2008--a few weeks after their own wedding anniversary.
One of two cakes--one at each family's summer reunion--to help celebrate 65 years of marriage
Labor Day 2008, celebrating their 65th Anniversary with Mom's brother Delbert Shankle (left) and sister-in-law Nancy Shankle (right). Uncle Delbert and Aunt Nancy live in Warren, Ohio; and Delbert is Mom's only living sibling.
Sharing the cake and the day with many family members who gathered to honor them at Mom's Shankle Family Picnic on Labor Day 2008, at Crooked Creek State Park south of Kittanning.
Happy, to have lived all these years together in their own home in relatively good health, and to have seen their great-grandsons.
