Edna Merle Gibson Bell Carson

Edna Merle Gibson was the first girl born in the Gibson family in anyone's memory.

Merle in 1918 at age two in her Grandparent's yard in Corsicana

Merle in 1919.

Merle in 1920. Aunt Al saw to it she was dressed fashionably.

Merle in 1921. She says she hated those curls. They had to be done each morning with a curling iron and rag curlers. She was very glad when she was old enough to stop having them.

Another picture of the hated curls. Taken at the same time as the one above.

 

Aunt Al was not the only beauty in the family. Here is Merle in 1934.

Lynn Bell, Merle Gibson Bell and a friend named Don in 1938.

 

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