A little girl named Joan Naber

INTERESTING what can be found in old newspapers!  We started with this photo of Joan Naber as a kid in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She's not listed in the 1930 US Census with her parents, so she was born after that.

(I probably guessed incorrectly about the year that this pic came from--her grandpa died in 1935, so that larger picture might have been taken as late as that...making Joan, here, 5 years old).  The photo to the right is from Ida's album.  It was with the other NM pics, so I assume its little Joanie, too.

 

Larry checked old Albuquerque newspapers on Ancestry.com and found later references to her...like the announcement of her impending wedding:

Joan was moving quite far away--Nebraska City is pretty far from Albuquerque, but happily, there were/are other Nabers in Nebraska (and I'm speculating that that's how she met Irven Meurer...?)

Here's a picture taken at a shower for her in 1954, given by a Mrs. Moreland and a Mrs. Jenkins, at the Jenkins home.  Joan's dad died in 1942, so it's nice to see a later picture of her mom, too.

Joan would be 80 this year....and a pretty cool link to the past.