Family Memories


My brothers and I were the first Donohue boys in two generations, the first in four generations who didn't die without leaving

male progeny.     Our grandmothers, Mary Donohue & Louise Hills, loved us.
 

This is our Parents,  Howard and Madelon Donohue, they put up with us.  We grew into womderful adolescents:
 

  There were three of us, Howard, Mike  &   Bill,
 

                                       then Pat &  Pete were added 
 

   We grew in body         and, well, it looks pius enough!
 
 

    This was the 60's, Howard & wife Margaret on left, then Mike and first wife Sheila, and  Grandma Hills, in 1968, I wore a collar even then.

This one I love, it is also out of them blessed 60's   That's Pete, with Mom & Dad, looking "hip"
 

Mom was a fox:   She is on left, in front of the Hill's restuarant in Bird Island, MN.  She was then a legal secretary for W. F. Donohue in St Cloud, MN.

Not long after this she joined the family.  This is her & my dad, Howard Donohue, son and junior partner at Donohue, Quigley & Donohue, Attorneys.
 

They made a lovely couple   married August 9, 1932 
 

This is Madelon with first born, Billie.    Later, with five sons:
My dad's singular sports experience, he rarely played, but they kept him on the team at Melrose High cuz he loved the road trips. My dad is first on left, first row.    This is Howard and his sisters,  Alice, Mary, Flora, Ethel, Howard and Madeline and as children in Melrose

   My mother as a baby   and me!   and my children,
Teresa,   Mike   & Amy   and all three 

My wife Diane and me    Diane      and daughter Heather
 

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