Some Old Photos & Other Items

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Here are some old photos and other items I've found as I'm going through some old photo albums
My older siblings, David, Jill and Larry Krause -- probably in 1956.
Hayley at around 10 months.

April, right around age 2.


John and me -- around 1980 or so.


The back of the printed program from my Grandmother, Margaret Gertrude Trager Krause's funeral.

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