Chapter 13: The Gorden Loren Family

Gordon Loren was a classmate of Dad's at the Augustana Seminary in Rock Island, Illinois.  After their graduation in June 1943, they both accepted calls at churches in the Seattle area.  Their 1954 visit to Great Falls was one of two times I remember seeing the Loren family.

As I look at the first picture, two questions immediately spring to mind.  Where's Barbara?  She would have been three or four months old at the time.  Best guess:  Mom and Dad asked Dora Donald, First English Lutheran Church organist and substitute aunt to the Nelson children, to babysit her. 

Second question.  Who's behind the camera?

I'm not exactly sure where the picture was taken, but most likely it was somewhere on the way to or from Giant Springs.;
Who's who?

Front row, left to right:  Paul, Kitty Loren (I only knew her by her nickname), Stephen Loren.  Kitty is my age; Stephen a year or two older.

Back row:  Dad, Mom (holding Larry), Vivian and Gordon Loren.

Underexposed.  Dad's the photographer.

Stephen, Kitty, and Paul at an overlook along River Drive North in Great Falls under a big blue Montana sky.  That's the Anaconda Copper Works in Black Eagle in the distance to the left.  The Missouri River is in the lower-left corner of the photo.