Grandpa and Me

This is a picture of me and my Grandpa Roy taken when I was a child. He is the man who did so much of the research I have included in this weblog. I will always miss him.

~Sarah

Bertha (Lipscomb) Backen and Carl Backen Sr. at their home in Palacios, TX.

1941

 Roy and Ruby enjoying the yard! (1941)

1941

Keith Backen posing with Grandmother Viola Draper Lipscomb in 1941.

1941

Ruby Church, and Roy Backen pictured with Roy's mother Bertha Backen in 1941.

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Roy, Ruby and Carl Sr. standing on the porch of the Backen home in Palacios, TX. (1941)

1941

Roy Backen enlisted in the United States Army on Aug. 14, 1941. Here are pictures taken with his family and sweetheart sometime that year. Roy pictured here with Ruby Church. Ruby and Keith married a year later.