
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,
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