Ancestors

It's my family reunion this weekend, with my parents and brothers and sisters and their kids and their kids' kids. The focus on this one will be on my mother's Heaps/Vogini ancestors. With that in mind, I pulled these pictures out of a box of wonderful family history I stole from Mom a little too long ago with the intent of scanning them all. Well, they are getting scanned - just very slowly in little bursts of activity followed by long spans of time in between. Just not as quickly as I had intended. Anyway, these were some of the pictures from the box. Kind of helps me feel like I know them a little better to see their faces.
This is my grandfather Albert Carrington Heaps and my grandmother Marie Susannah Vogini. No date - my guess from the picture is that it was taken some time around their wedding which was Sept. 5, 1923. Grandpa Heaps died when I was six years ago, and mostly what I remember of him was as a sickly old, old man we had to be quiet around. Looking at pictures and remembering discussions with Grandma, I know he wasn't that way all of his life. But he was skinny. Why didn't I get those genes? Grandma came from Switzerland, and I always loved her gentle German/Swiss accent. She lived a long life and my boys all remember visiting her in her home in Salt Lake City. She was 98 years old when she passed away.

This is Grandma Heaps' father Johann Battista Vogini - he's the one I inherited the love of pizza and lasagna from.


This is Grandma Heaps' mother Maria Anna Theresia Machler. She's the one I inherited my hips from, as well as, in part at least, my love of the Savior.

And these are Grandpa Heaps' parents, David Heaps and Mary Ann Beck. Both joined the Church in England and came to America as immigrants. Read Grandpa Heaps' history to get a feel for the hard work and slim means these wonderful ancestors lived with. It will be fun learning a little more about all of them tomorrow.