This is my Aunt Velma Beard (Smith). I do not remember having ever met her, she is my dad's sister, daughter of Oscar Lee Smith and Edna (Hatchet)Smith. Dad said she lives in Arizona now. The photo was taken by Koen Studio in Plainview, Texas, probably in the 1940s. This is a photo from my mother's photo collection. She gave me this photo just months before she passed away. I borrowed many other photo's after her funeral and scanned them in on my scanner and backed them up onto CDs. Mom's page in the Davis family web site.

It will be ok to use her picture. I will tell her daughter Sue who also lives in Flagstaff and she will tell her mom who does not have E-mail. Velma has 6 kids and is a widow and lives in an assisted living place. She is 83. Her husband Max was a B24 and other planes pilot in and after WW2 and was retired as a Lt. Col. from the Air Force. Came to see us when we lived in Clovis -had just bought a new Nash 600 and would not drive over 50. Got 30 miles to gallon even back then. We do talk about once or twice per month-either she calls or I do. She spent time in Spain and has made trips to Australia. I do E-mail Sue occasionally-she works for the US Geology ( sp) and is a real outdoor enthusiast. Daughter Betty lives in a suburb of Phoenix and works for the big daily paper there-is a recent widow and a very likeable lady.

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