Day 132/365 - Grandma Morty's 1956 European Vacation

Today's post is very sentimental.  My sister Jill is very much into ancestry and today she sent me some photos from slides that my grandmother had in her things. Some were from a European vacation she took in 1956.  One of them is this photo of some Dutch people taken in Holland.

Photo from 1956 European Vacation

I found a newspaper archived article from a local Albuquerque newspaper from May 1956 that mentions my grandmother's trip to Europe. Here is a scan of the newspaper page.  I will post the text of the article following.  My grandmother's name is Evangeline B. Mortimore.  I got my middle name from her (Evangeline).

Newspaper article: Albuquerque Journal, May 9, 1956

Here is the text from the article:

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To Tour European Countries

A group of 29 New Mexicans joined by serveral persons from Canada, South Dakota and California will leave the United States the latter part of May on a 60-day Education Assn. of New Mexico travel study tour.

Headed by Dr. F. M. Kercheville, who is arranging the tour with Bowman Travel Agency, Albuquerueans will include Mrs. Kercheville, Miss Francina Kercheville, their daughter, Miss Georgia Benkais, Dr. and Mrs. J. Lopez Garduno, Mrs. Evangeline Mortimore, Miss Katherine Martin, Miss Ann Ellen Lee, Mrs. Lulu Relick, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Deshcler, Mr. and Mrs. George Dawson, Miss Vivian Vacquier, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smith, Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Kloubec, Mrs. Lena Rudolph.

Other New Mexicans making the May 29-July 27 trip will be Mrs. Lillian M. Siemantel, Mrs. John E. Tadlock, Mrs. J. J. Albright, Mrs. Roy Smith, all of Clovis: Mrs. and Mrs. Lewis Critenden, Miss Normal Miller, Mrs. W. I. Martin, Las Cruces, and Hoy Chaddick, Nara Visa.

Albuquerqueans on the tour will be enterained at an informal cruise party at 3 p.m. Sunday to be given by Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Bowman at Hogan's.

The tour is designed to study languages, manners and customs of our overseas friends in 10 countries and two principalities according to Dr. Kercheville.  The countries to be visited include Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain.

The group will sailing from Montreal, Canada, May 29, on the Empress of France and will land in Liverpool, England.  

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My sister also sent me the page of the ship's log that shows my grandmother, Evangeline B. Mortimore, passenger number 674.

I feel very fortunate to have been able to find the newpaper article that makes a bit of a story of these photos and the ship's log.  So I decided I would do a little Photoshop magic for my Grandma Morty (who passed away in 1993) and put myself in the photo of the Dutch people holding a sign in the photo she took in 1956 (a year before I was born).

Message from Me in the Year 2012 to to Grandma Morty in the Year 1956

Here's the original photo of me from 2012 that I put into my grandmother's photo:

Me in 2012

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Jane Evangeline Mortimore Sampson