ITEM DESCRIPTION:
These photos were part of a lot described as follows: Lafayette, Indiana and Independence, Kansas ( & area), are frequently depicted. The era is mainly 1915-1930's, with some WW2 photos, some WW1 photos, and a few older ones 1900 or so. The majority of them seem to depict events & family of Kenneth La Reau (Kenneth Elwyn La Reau, born Chicago, Il, January 3, 1922 to John Tellesford La Reau (b1899) and Ruby Emily (Chenoweth, from Lafayette, Indiana ) (b1899 or 1900; d. 1979); in 1930 living in Kane, Illinois; Ken, by WW2, a Staff Sergeant in the Army Air Force, Independence, Kansas, where he lived until 1960ish, or later; died in Branson, MO, January 6, 2013, where he'd owned a business for "many years".
Ken's wife & her family: Betty Josephine (Wilson)., b. March 24, 1922, d. January 22, 2006, Montgomery County, Kansas - Independence, Kansas. (parents: Wilbur Wilson & Ruby Wilson (Cowell); Betty was unmarried & in Independence, KS in 1940)