This is a photo of my grandmother. It was scanned from a Roosevelt Mall Senior Citizen Discount Card that I found after her death. This is pretty much how I remember her, I like the photo, so here it is. During the last few years of her life she was stricken with Parkinson's Disease. Fortunately she was here for the birth of my son Sean, her great-grandson and to attend his 1st birthday party. She left us seven months later on March 22, 1990. Throughout my life my grandmother was always there for me, unconditionally. She was a super lady! Henry, 30 December 2006 |
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| This is a photo of my grandmother singing at a family function in 1983. She also entertained at the Shore Club and Algiers Hotels in the Miami Beach area that is now known as South Beach. She enjoyed dancing as well as singing and won many dance competitions with her late husband Gus, whom she also taught how to dance after they were married. |
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My mother with my grandmother in a chartered Cessna, 1979. |
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Lyric cheat to the song "Smile" by John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons and Charlie Chaplin written on the back of a (now defunked) Western Savings Bank deposit slip in my grandmother's own handwriting. I found this in a kitchen drawer in her apartment after her passing. |
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This is a photo of my 24 year old grandmother with her first husband Henry. Henry passed away in 1946 from Leukemia. |
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My grandmother and her husband Gus in Florida shortly after they were married in 1964. |
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The Dolly Sisters: (l to r) Aunt Anna, Aunt Tillie, Aunt Rose and my dear grandmother Diana. Photo taken in Atlantic City during the summer of 1959 |
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The Dolly Sisters - 1974: (l to r) My grandmother, Aunt Anna, Aunt Rose and Aunt Tillie |