This is my great-great-grandmother, Emma Ticak. She was born in 1884 and died when she was 97.
My dad knew her, but I didn't.
This was taken in 1941 in a town called Maribor in a part of Yugoslavia that is now Slovenia.

This is her brother Max: Herman (sitting) in 1917, when he was a member of the Bosnia Herzegovina infintry division
of the Hapsburg officer corps. He was later captured and spent time in a POW camp.

He joined the German Army in WWII and was again captured toward the end of the war.
He died in 1975 when he was 98.

This is my great-grandmother, Hella Becker. She still lived in Goppingen, near Stuttgart in Germany.
She died on August 7, 2003. She was 96.
Her husband (not my great-grandfather) died in 1964.
This is a more recent (February, 2002) picture of "Granny."

Here is a picture of my great-grandmother
and my father when they were on a trip to California
in 1968.

Any guesses where dad had just moved to the U.S. from?

These are my grandparents Carla and Charles. I think this was taken in the 1950s in Germany...
when people thought smoking was cool. Pretty silly, huh?

These was taken in Germany in 1959. The little one is my father and the two nice ladies in the photo on the left are my grandmother Carla and my great-grandmother Hella. If you look really carefully, you can even see my great-great-grandmother Emma looking through the window. Pretty cool, huh? The little girl in the picture on the right is my aunt Gillian.

This is a picture of me when I was about six-weeks-old. I was just about to leave my hometown of Washington, D.C., for Colorado. It looks like I really trust that big guy holding me, doesn't it?

This is one of the only photos of three generations of Pelkey guys.
My dad is holding me and the guy on the right is my grandfather Charles.
He died a short time after that.

These just in:

Incriminating photos of my father
from when people thought really long hair was cool
and then, much later, when he went undercover as a Republican,
proving that life can be much, much stranger than fiction.

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