Dad - A Visual Memory Of T.r. Smith

Dad The whole life of Thomas R. Smith

Thomas R. Smith Nothing can tell Dad's whole story. This book brings together images from each period of his life, as a keepsake. This photo of Tom and Jan dates from about 1955 in Mansfield, Ohio.

Dad Dad's life is fairly well documented in images, and only a selection can be included here. Some are very old and grainy, and little can be done to improve them. If there are time periods from his life that are under!represented here, they would be his work life and his life in Hawaii. His work life is less well!photographed, as is true for most people. Of hundreds of pictures of his 47 years in Hawaii, only a few are included here, because, while they may be interesting, they are somewhat repetitive. The images here are mostly chronological, and most of them include Dad. There are a very large numper of photos that he is not in, because he took the picture. Ken Smith, 2008

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Dad's father, Roy Smith, is on the left and his grandfather, William Thomas Smith, is holding the shovel. At a lead ore 'roasting plant' , between Cuba City and Benton, WI around 1910.

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William Thomas Smith, and Mary Merry Smith, Roy's parents.

Dad's mother, Mathilda Karrmann, came from a Platteville, WI German immigrant family . Her father, Jacob came from Prussia in 1861.

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Mathilda is on the left, Dad's father, Roy Leighton Smith, is on the right.

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Jeanette, Ned, Arden and Layton were Dad's older siblings.

Dad was a big, roly!poly infant.

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Tom, Ned and Jeanette, in front of the "Stoddard House" in Darlington.

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Tom, Ned, Arden and Layton, shown on Terrace Avenue in Janesville, in front of their grandparent's home.

Left picture Tom is in the center, Gerald Rose is on the right. Right picture, Tom, Marge Hepner, Jeanette Smith, and Tom Kennedy

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In 1942, World War II brought Dad into the army. This is his Army ID photo, complete with serial number.

Dad with girls on Guam. His signal corps comrades in New Caledonia, 1943.

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Roy, Tom, and Tillie the day he returned from the war, February, 1946

Dad as an engineering student at the University of Wisconsin, around 1948. The table in the rathskellar where he met recent East High graduate Jana Browne in 1946.

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Georgiana Browne, from a Madison family, was 17 when she met Tom. This photo was taken in front of her parent's home on Center Avenue in Madison.

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Browne family at Lake Wisconsin, around 1950. Bottom Kenny, Jan, Marshall Sr., Vera, Je", Dorothy, Randy, Leonard Haines, top Tom, Caryl Browne and Marshall Jr.

Tom grew a beard for the Engineers, who in addition to the Irish, see "St. Patrick" as their patron saint. Right, radiator water on the honeymoon.

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Jan, a new Mom at 20, with baby Kenny at the Badger Village student housing near the old Ammo plant North of Sauk City.

Badger Village was very, very basic. Left, interior shot of TR and Kenny, Right, Marshall Browne, Jr. , and girlfriend and future wife Caryl Klug visit.

More life as a family of three.

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After moving to Mansfield, Ohio to work for the phone company there, Ned was born.

Dad liked to cook. He also liked to cut hair. Both interiors from Mansfield around 1955

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Visiting the Guernseys at Cli" Fellow's farm between Evansville and Janesville.

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Jan's parents, Marshall and Vera, pose on the front lawn in Mansfield.

More scenes of Tom in Mansfield. Ned is in the center.

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In 1958, we left the brick street of Mansfield in our brand new Ford station wagon.

Clarke was born in Palo Alto, Ca. where we lived for 2 years.

Brilliant photo of Jan by Tom. In 1960 we moved to Hawaii.

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Tom visits the volcano, near the buried village of Kapoho.

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We have a few images from his business life. Dates, identities unknown.

More images from Dad's business life.

Dad liked to hold meetings at the Tahitian Lanai and the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel

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Mom and Dad on Punchbowl, circa 1980.

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Mom and Dad each holding their newly!christened granddaughter Danielle Smith, Ned's daughter.

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Dad and Ken's daughter Charlotte Smith, around the time Mom was battling breast cancer. In 1985, Mom died, at home, with Dad by her side.

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Same visit, mealtime at the Auwina St. house in Kailua.

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A unique gathering of Smith and Browne relatives at Cli" and Jeanette Fellows farm, 1980.

Not long after Mom died, Dad married Ellen Bonebrake, one of Mom's friends. Dad and Ellen later divorced, but remained close to the end.

Clarke, Clarke's son Zakary, Dad, Clarke's wife Missy, and Ellen. Right, Dad at Clarke and Missy's wedding.

By about 2000, Dad had lost most of his central vision. Ned visits, Dad with his three sons at the Echo Tap.

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Dad is seen here talking to Kelly Browne at a gathering at Ken's house. Caryl Browne is on the right, Brad Browne in background.

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Diane Erickson, Dad's partner the last few years of his life.

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Dad with sister Jeanette Fellows, Nephew Carl Smith and his wife, Pat.

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Dad, Ray Baker, Scott Varney, Skip Muzac and Je" Whitman, kneeling. Dad would ask where the ball is, and then hit it even though he couldn't precisely see it. He loved golf.

Thanks, Dad. Thanks for keeping us all together, and moving us to all the exciting places we went. Thanks for sending me to a fancy private school when you realized I was not the right kind of kid for the public school I was in. Thanks for teaching both Ned and me about business and investing. Thanks for teaching us that everyone can be our friend. 50

Thanks for doing so much for all the people you touched, including both family members and non!family members. Thanks for moving us to Hawaii, which was a wonderful place for your three kids to grow up. We miss you. We will never forget you.

Ken Smith, 2008

Dad A keepsake photographic memoir