MacLaughlan family photos

Marie and Alva MacLaughlan outside their Chicago home, circa 1947. Marie had roots in the Jatho and Müller lines. Here's a link to their marriage license.

Their elder son Thomas, about 1925, near a rose bush in Chicago.

A Fourth of July picnic, 1935: from left, Alva Jr. (standing), Tom (shading eyes), Cathie Breetzke, Marie Jr., Florence Mikkelsen Breetske (seated behind Marie Jr.), Catherine Petersen Mikkelsen (seated in chair), Dolores (shading eyes), Marie Sr., Alva Sr.
Catherine was Alva's mother, Florence his half-sister from their mother's second marriage to Thomas Mikkelsen. Thomas died in 1921.

Tom, Doris Rhode MacLaughlan (wife of Alva Jr.), Alva Jr. holding son Robert, about 1943 in Chicago. Tom was in the Army and stationed in China; Alva Jr. was in the Signal Corp.

Tom, about 1935

Dolores, Tom, Marie and Alva Sr., about 1947 in Chicago.

The MacLaughlan siblings: Alva Jr., Dolores, Marie and Tom, early 1950s.
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Celebrating Tom's engagement to Lorraine Bruns: Alva, Marie, Lorraine's mother Bertha Gohr Bruns, Lorraine Bruns, Tom, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.