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Lillian V. Hendershot: A Life in Pictures
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Author: RMH
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A chronicle of the life of my grandmother, Lillian V. Hendershot, in some old (and new!) family photos and artifacts. She lived a remarkable life, and had the pictures to prove it. Full summary
Lillian was born Lillian Virginia Hoppe on December 27, 1926 in Dayton, Ohio—a big city for central Ohio, best known as the home of the Wright brothers and of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She and John Bentley Hendershot met as teenagers ...
Like most women of her generation, Lillian always wanted to look her best, but Depression-era Ohio didn’t exactly produce many movie starlets. She was always a little sensitive about her looks. This is probably never clearer than in this ...
During World War II, Lillian followed John to his duty station at Adak, Alaska. Adak is a tiny atoll with a deep volcanic harbor that could reportedly hold almost the entire Pacific fleet during the war. The weather was ghastly; Lillian’s ...
  As this photo shows, there wasn’t much on Adak, so everyone was surprised when General Dwight D. Eisenhower came to tour the base. Unfortunately for John, Lillian, and their friend Mike, Eisenhower was a bit late in arriving; his ...
Trouble, shown here with Lillian on Adak, was allegedly part malamute and part something else, but mostly he lived up to his name. He adopted John and Lillian during their stay on Adak, and when their son John Charles was born, he adopted the ...
During the Korean War, John was stationed in Yokohama, Japan. Lillian again followed him, this time with their kids, J.C. and little JoAnn, in tow. The entire situation was surreal for Lillian, from mastering a foreign culture to learning to ...
Many Japanese civilians in the early 1950s had never seen anyone with red hair. J.C. and JoAnn were the center of attention wherever they went, with people stopping to stare or touch their heads to see if the color was real. Once on a car trip, ...
Lillian knew J.C. well enough to know he could always find trouble on an Army base, and usually gave him just one piece of advice: “Don’t do dumb things!” He didn’t always listen. He had inherited her grin, but his ...
Lillian was close to her father, and kept in touch with him throughout his life, but apparently she didn’t have any trouble speaking up in front of him. This photo shows the two of them on a pier at San Pedro, California, probably sometime ...
After John left the Army, he and Lillian settled in Sylmar, California. They’re shown here in front of the house with all three kids—J.C., JoAnn, and Jim. John went to work as a gate guard at a movie studio, and later an accountant, ...
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