Edna Merle
Gibson Bell Carson
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Edna Merle Gibson
was the first girl born in the Gibson family in anyone's memory. |
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Merle in 1918
at age two in her Grandparent's yard in Corsicana
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Merle in 1919.
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Merle in 1920.
Aunt Al saw to it she was dressed fashionably.
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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.
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Another picture
of the hated curls. Taken at the same time as the one above.
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Aunt Al was
not the only beauty in the family. Here is Merle in 1934.
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Lynn Bell, Merle Gibson Bell and a friend named Don in 1938.
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