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| WEDDING OF ADAM TAIVALKOSKI AND MEGAN KINNUNEN, OCT. 2018 |
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| DAVE AND JOANNE TAIVALKOSKI, PARENTS |
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| RON AND LORA KINNUNEN, PARENTS (and sleeping baby) |
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| ENGAGEMENT PIC....JANIE TOROLA AND LEVI ERKKILA...GETTING MARRIED MAY 18 DAVE AND ANN'S DAUGHTER, MARK AND AMY'S SON |
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| ENGAGED...PAUL TOROLA, AND ABBY BJORN PAUL IS DAVE AND ANN'S SON, ABBY IS JENNIFER AND BJ BJORN'S DAUGHTER WEDDING FEB. 2 |
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| THIS PAST SUMMER AT DONELLE AHO'S CAMP...HER MOM ELLEN YLITALO CAME TO STAY A FEW DAYS AT CEDAR BAY, SO WE WERE TREATED TO TROUT DINNER |
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| I JUST KNEW I'D FORGET NAMES...OUR DINNER HOSTS...DONELLE (FUDDY) AHO, HER THREE KIDS, KAYLEEN (MUKKA) HORSMA, FR MENAHGA, AND OUR NEW RESIDENT RACHEL, WHO JUST MARRIED AN ANDERSON.... |
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| AT THIS SUMMER'S CALUMET GOLF TOURNAMENT...REALLY FUN TO GOLF W THESE GIRLS....WE SCORED WELL!! FIRST FLIGHT. |
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| THREE PEPPY LADIES...LIL KILPELA, INA NORDSTROM, RUTH JURMU GOING STRONG |
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| HAPPY TUBA PLAYER AT LAST SPRING CONCERT...MARNE ANDERSON |
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| calumet highschool concert, spring, 2018 |
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| kids love this great music teacher...mr. watts, auctioning off a coiuple of pillows made from the old uniforms....one got $500 for a pillow. |
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| RANDY AND JANINA'S BOYS....THEY TOOK ME IN THE BACK YARD AND PROCEEDED TO TELL ME ABOUT THE YUCKYBERRY TREE THAT THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO PICK FROM. SO CUTE, ENJOYED THE VISIT IN AUGUST |
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| MY GREATGRANDS.....AT MY BIRTHDAY PARTY THIS PAST YEAR...MARCO ANDERSON, VANESSA KINNUNEN, ZYON TOROLA, EMMA HELMINEN....LOVE EM! |
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| THE IMPOLA'S FROM MINNESOTA, ENJOYING ICE CREAM, THIS PAST SUMMER |
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| ISAAC ANDERSON LANDING HIS PLANE AT THIS AIRPORT |
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| COUPLE OF LOVEBIRDS...JOYCE HELMINEN AND ISAAC ANDERSON |
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| A VISIT WITH MISSY HYRKAS LUBINSKI WITH LEAH RECENTLY MORGAN, MISSY AND LEAH |
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| COUPLE MORE LOVE BIRDS...PAUL TOROLA AND ABBY BJORN (real late to post, is see the xmas tree) |
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| BRUMMM, BRUMMM, SAYS AL AND REA...(2nd childhood?) sent by eric pelli..thanks |
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| PATRICK YLITALO (BRITA) AND BABY |
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| HELEN DAAVETTILA (THE UBER DRIVER...JOKE) CAROL HEINONEN, ETHEL HARMALA |
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| TOM STORM, CARL PIETILA, JIM HALONEN, DAVE TOROLA (FATHER OF THE GROOM) AND MATT HALONEN |
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| TAWNA/ BETH RYYNANEN, ANN MARIE PIETILA, ADENA DAAVETTILA (we were invited to take flowers home with us...) |
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| GINNY PIETILA |
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| AVIS SHEFFER, DARLENE LEAN, ME |
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| RELLIES AT THE WEDDING...ME WITH KATHLEEN HELPPI, LISA NIEMI, KAREN KILPELA |
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| (back up north) KATHRYN AND JOE ESKOLA AND SON |
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| AT LENNIE AND LAURA HILL'S A FEW YEARS AGO...IN FRONT OF THE PLAYHOUSE MANY FAMILIES VISITING....FIND YOUR KIDS....click to enlarge |
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| GIRLS TIME OUT...MARNE ANDERSON, BRITA HAAPALA, CAROL BERG, TESSIE JOHNSO (thanks, marne) |
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| i don't know what year this is, but my nephew mike harju, and his cousin art karvonen, and mikko halonen are in this class. |
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| OLDIE...VERNA GRANGROTH, ESTHER TOROLA, LUELLA RUONAVAARA AND EVA WUOLLET WITH THEIR BABIES |
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| THIS WAS AT OUR HOUSE YEARS AGO, LOOKS LIKE A BUSY BEES EVENT... MOST OF THESE GIRLS ARE MOTHERS, EVEN GRANDMOTHERS AT THIS TIME TOROLA'S, FRANTTI, HAATAJA'S, KANGAS'S, LARSON'S, PETERSON'S,, ETC |
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| ME AND MY BROTHER PAUL....I BABYSAT HIM TONS, AND LOVED HIM TO PIECES I WAS 17 WHEN HE WAS BORN, HELPED MY MOM A LOT WITH HIM. |
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| CARL AND DAVID, SKIIG DOWN THE POLE LINE TO TRAPROCK...4 AND 5 YEARS OLD |
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| MORE OLDIES...FRONT: CONNIE ROIKO, LISA TOROLA NIEMI, KATIE TOLKKINEN LEUKEMA, MARGIE TOROLA HELMINEN, CARRIE TOROLA HYRKAS, SARAH GRANGROTH PLAYING WITH THEIR DOLLIES IN OAK KNOLL, MN |
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| OUR FAMILY, TAKEN THE NIGHT BEFORE PETE AND I WERE MARRIED: FRONT: COUSIN SHARON OLSON, MOM, PAUL, DAD, RICHARD OLSON BK: JERRY, ME, TWIN BRO. EARL, JANE, AND GLORIA (COOKIE) 1957 |
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| MY BRO. PAUL IN THE STROLLER...AND FREQUENT VISITORS FROM A FEW HOUSES DOWN: MARY ANDERSON LARSON, DEAN, AND TOM ANDERSON |
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| PETE, GEORGE HAAPALA, IRVINE PETERSON, WALTER TOROLA, CHESTER YLITALO, ART SKOOG...I THINK IT WAS TAKEN IN MENAHGA |
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| PETE TOOK THIS PIC AT OUR OPENING ST. JOHN'S SERVICES IN OUR NEW CHURCH, CALUMET...(you mean i had brown hair back then?) |
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| SERVICES IN FINLAND SWEDEN...HERE IN MORJAV SWEDEN, 2018 |
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| AMERICAN GUESTS AT MORJAV: MARIA GRANGROTH-MARTIN AND HUSBAND, (DON'T KNOW WHO THE YOUNG GIRLS ARE), COKATO (thanks for the pic, maria!) MIKE AND PHYLLIS RAMOS, GORDON AND PEGGY LARSON, LINDA AND DAVE PELLI, DON PENNALA AND GIRLS |
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| CLEANING BLUES, MARGIE PICKED GALLONS THIS SUMMER, LOVES TO PICK, EVEN THO SHE GOT LOST FOR TWO HOURS...HAPPY TO SAY, HER PHONE AND BRIAN'S LOCATED HER ON THE MAP, AND SHE FOUND HER WAY OUT. (make sure your phone is fully charged when you go in da bush...lucky hers was, so was able to contact Brian) A VERY HAPPY WEEKEND IN HOWELL, WHERE MY GRANDSON, BRIAN TOROLA AND AMY HALONEN WERE MARRIED...AUG. 2018 |
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| AMY, GRANDMOM ELEANOR HARMALA, BRIAN |
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| AMY, BRIAN AND ME |
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| TWO LITTLE SWEETHEARTS...ROSIE KASTAMO AND JOSIE HELPPI |
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| AARON AND MYRA HALONEN, AMY'S PARENTS |
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| RAY KASTAMO, PHIL RYYNANEN (GRAMPA TO BRIAN), JIM DAAV |
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| ANN (BRIAN'S MOM), CINDY DAAV, CAROL RYYNANEN (GRAMMA TO BRIAN), KARA DAAV |
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| MORE GRANDPARENTS...AMY'S...RAY AND BETTY HALONEN |
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| MY GRANDSON, CARL TOROLA AND I |
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| MORE GRANDSONS...PAUL, ME, STEVE (LUMP IN CHEEK, AHEM), LENNY |
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| LEVI ERKKILA, AND JANIE TOROLA...(ENGAGED A COUPLE WKS AGO) |
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| CARJE, PAUL, STEVE, LENNIE, TRAVIS (KANGAS) GUYS W FLOWERS STOOD AT THE WEDDING |
