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FAMILY
ALBUM
HALBERT HAROLD HOLLOWAY
Irena Alice and Wirt Holloway, Bakersfield
Ben Holloway, Texas or California
Mom, Halbert Harold II and Ben Holloway, Bakersfield
Mom's father, Mr Tilley, and Hal, Bakersfield
Mrs Munsey, their teacher, taught three generations of Holloways, Hal
is second from left in the front row.
Aunt Leece, Mom (Elizabeth Tilley Holloway), Ed's wife, Ben, Ed, Hal,
Luella, Aunt Martha, Aunt
Luella, Bakersfield
Halbert Harold Holloway II at 18, graduating from High School, just
before his father's death
Halbert Harold Holloway at 28, photograph for California teaching
credential
JULIA BOLTON
Her father's family: Frederick Rothwell Bolton, Florence Bolton,
Dorothy Joyce Bolton, John
Robert
Glorney Bolton, Eileen Mary Bolton. Granny was widowed when my father,
her oldest child,
was seven, supporting her family with church embroidery. Derek went to
Cambridge and became a Dean in the Church of Ireland, publishing a book
on the Caroline Church in Ireland, Joyce became a professor of child
growth and development and a fine painter with many exhibitions in
America, my father went to Ardingly and Oxford, working in the Bodleian
Library at 15, and became friends with Gandhi
and Pope John XXIII, publishing seven books, Eileen was a self-taught,
brilliant scholar, publishing Lichens for Vegetable Dyeing.
Mother's family: Maternal
great grandparents, Sir James and Lady Roberts,
Fairlight
Hall
Maternal
grandmother, Alice Maude Mary Roberts
Uncle Leo, Sybil, Auntie 'Q'. Granny has sewn all their dresses and the
table cloth from being taught in Swiss finishing school.
Sybil Margaret and John Robert Glorney Bolton, 1937. The frontispiece
to
their book, Two Lives Converge,
which
they
dedicated 'To Julia'
[For more of my mother's ancestors' photographs see Sir James Roberts]
Julia's passport photograph for going to France, 1951, at 14
Julia, 1952, her hair cut, with school friends at Holmhurst St Mary
where she went to school and where at 55 she entered its convent, after
having Hal's consent to do so, since he had married another, in
Synagogue. Marriage vows in Canon Law have precedence over monastic
vows.
Julia, just arrived in America, 1953, at 16.
The Americans immediately made her 'American' with perm and lipstick
the day after the photograph of when she arrived and she felt very
uncomfortable about being changed. She never liked being forced
to wear lipstick.
In Saltillo, Mexico, 1954
In Satilllo, 1954
Auntie Joyce's cherry orchard, 1954, whose cherries she and I
used to
pick and sell to
pay for painting vacations in Carmel.
In my aunt's cherry orchard with Hal, 1956.
Teaching in Unitarian nursery school to have money to pay for Hal's
medicines during our engagement, the deposit for a rented house and the
down payment for
a car when we married.
Graduation at 20, 1957
With Edith May Alcock, Halbert's first
fiancéè. We both
graduated with great distinction, departmental honors and are wearing
our Phi Kappi Phi ribbons.
Going to my Anglican wedding, San Jose, 10 August 1957
MR AND MRS HALBERT HAROLD HOLLOWAY
10 AUGUST 1957
Halbert Harold and Julia Holloway
Hal's National Guard friend, Halbert Harold Holloway, Julia Holloway,
Lazaro
Garza, Myra Carico
Auntie Joyce Bolton, Julia Holloway, Myra Carico, 10 August 1957. I
made all our
dresses here, indeed all those I wear in these photographs after 1953.
The silk of the wedding dress I later used to line pants I made for
Richard, Colin and
Jonathan out of yellow corduroy when I took them to Europe to visit
their relatives there. We received no child support. My graduation gown
is my aunt's, that I
remade into my doctor's
robes, and which we had also loaned to Hal for his graduation. I gave
my
academic regalia to our grandchildren so that all these generations
could use
them, placing them in the chests I made for them when I entered the
convent at 55.
At Powdermill where I had partly grown up, near Holmhurst St Mary where
I went
to school, now in nun's habit and veil.
As Hermit of the Holy Family, photographed in Sweden, 1999.
As I am now, photographed in Boulder, March 2005
Dedicated to our children and grandchildren, 10 August 2006
See
also
Family
and Convent
Albums:
Poems Pennyeach; Mosaic;
Gandhi; BBC http://catskill.gcal.ac.uk/repository/repos-fs/gcu/a0/a1/gcu-a0a1k7-b.mov
recording of many voices 'Talking of Gandhiji', my father's voice being
one of these; Death
Valley Incident; Halbert
Harold
Holloway,
The Woman, the Sun, the
Flowers and the Courage;
Sir James Roberts;
My England (in progress); Morris Dances of England; Nigel Foxell, Amberley Village; The Joy of the Bicycle;
Richard Ben Holloway,
Together Let Us Sweetly Live;
Jonathan Luke
Holloway, Home Birth Can Be An Option; Holmhurst St Mary; Mother
Agnes
Mason,
C.H.F.; Rose Lloyds, Rose's Story;
Deaf/Death; David and
Solomon; How to
Make Cradles and Libraries; Hazel Oddy, Martha's
Supplication; Tangled Tale; Oliveleaf
Chronicle
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