Norma’s Family

“Bampa, Lynda Jo, June ’59”

A less formal shot of the indomitable T Earl. Chrissy informs me that Lynda Jo is his granddaughter: daughter of his daughter Catherine (not to be confused with Kathryn). They’re dancing, by the way, on the sidewalk in front of the “Blue Mansion,” the Pardoe homestead in Provo.

By Lynne Wright, her first husband, Norma had three children. After a quarter-century as each other’s sole sibling, therefore, Brent and I now had three grown step-siblings (including two sisters!—a delight unprecedented in our experience) to meet and to come to cherish. In birth order, as they looked when we met them, around 1969: