Remembering Ria Fuhrmann and Nathan Moran

Ria Fuhrmann Moran, Summer 1952

In addition to catching the lovely Ria, Nathan was a great fisherman too!

Though born in Teplitz-Schonau, Czechoslovakia, the Fuhrmann family was German.  Today we remember the birth of Ria Fuhrmann who was born in 1926.  She was the daughter of Franz and Marie Fuhrmann.  

Ria's picture is from the summer of 1952 and most likely taken in Germany.  Just two years later on October 1 1954 she married Nathan Harrell Moran of Dresden, Tennessee.  The couple were married in Wiesbaden, Germany.  Ria and Nathan lived in Japan, Alabama, and Kansas before settling at Moran Place in the 1960's.

Nathan passed away in 1982.  Ria left us to join her beloved Nate last year on March 18, 2013.  A bit of old world grace and manners departed this world when she passed away. 

Fishing pole Friday

We don't know who these people are or even where the photographs were taken but it's a series of three I've found.

In the first photo we see the group seated on the steps.  The ladies have fishing poles and the little boy in front with the huge brimmed hat has a gun.  He's also the only one with barefeet!
















The next photo shows that same bare foot boy toting the fishing poles and his gun.  My favorite thing of all though are the ducks waddling around the the corner of the house behind him.















And last but not least a group photo in the great outdoors.