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Saturday, July 16, 2005

How Old?

Here is Nana at an early age...I'm going to guess that she is a teenager in this photo. And I'm sure that this was taken at a commercial photographers studio, as the backdrop and props seem stylized and out of place. Date?

There are all kinds of discrepancies about dates and ages associated with Nana. I have a birth certificate for dad, (1915) and on it it says that Nana was 26 years old and this was her second child. That would make 1889 her birth year, not 1887 as most other records show. William Bernie Dunn, her husband, is said to be 30 years old at the birth. Later, when Nana was working at Robinson's, she began her employment by telling them she was 10 years younger than she was and so she was still working at the age of 75. Manipulating the dates was obviously hereditary as our Auntie Jay, born in 1912, always insisted that she was dad's younger sister.

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