April Highlights from Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Facebook Group!

Here are some of the photographs and stories that were posted in the DDFR Facebook Group. We hope that these DDFR highlights brighten your day, and maybe even inspire you to share your own!

“This is a picture of me at 3 years old on a family trip to Washington, DC and a picture of my father at the same age in Mississippi. Our personalities are so similar. I only imagine if I didn’t know my father, I would not have known so much about myself. I’m blessed.” – JaVonne Armstrong‎

‎“My maternal grandmother and grandfather, he being a Lutheran from Norway, her an Irish Catholic from Brooklyn. They caused quite a stir when deciding to get married and my Grandmother’s sisters wouldn’t even attend the wedding because of the difference in religion and culture. It was the 1940s right after my Grandfather returned from serving in the Navy during WWII. He died at a young 47, before I was born, but his legend in my family lives on.” – Katy Diamond Hamer

‎“This is a photo of my maternal great-grandmother, Bessie Harrison Hawkins (1890-1955), holding her firstborn child, Ethel Hawkins Banks (1917-1979), who is my grandmother. Great-grandmother Bessie was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She married my great-grandfather, George Hawkins, who was from Littleton, North Carolina. Together they migrated to Steelton, Pennsylvania where they established a farm and raised eight children. Grandmother Ethel married Monroe L. Banks in 1939. They had four children together. Grandmother was “differently-abled.” She had a sledding accident at age 11. For her entire life, she stepped with one leg and slid the other. That didn’t stop her from doing anything she wanted to do, though! If you’re going swimming, Grandmom is going swimming. If you’re going to an amusement park, Grandmother is, too. She was also a deep-sea fisherwoman, bringing home all kinds of fish and marine life, including sharks!” – Jade D. Banks

“Celebrating my Daddy, Forest Randolph Williams, who would have been 80 years old today. Here he is with his undefeated US Army football team, The Terrible Toul Tigers while he was stationed in Europe. I would have hated to have been on the opposing team! Forever loved, forever missed, forever remembered.” – Sharon Holm‎

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