Christmas Poetry

To Blanche
        from Elmer
                with Love

A lifetime of Elmer Riggins'
Christmas poems from long ago

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Elmer in 1890. (From tintype.)



Elmer's mother Lizzie Sharp Riggins about 1891. (From tintype.)




Elmer's father George Elmer Riggins about 1891. (From tintype.)





Elmer with his sister Ruth about 1894. (From tintype.)



Elmer with his mother and sister at their family home
on Clementon Road in Gibbsboro, NJ in 1895.



Elmer around 1903.





Blanche around 1903.



Elmer as young man in 1905.
With his mother, grandmother, and great grandfather.



Blanche with George in 1915.



The family 'down the shore' in 1919.



The family home in Oaklyn, NJ around 1925.
Purchased on July 13, 1925, the mortgage interest rate was 6%.



Elmer at home in 1938.



The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company coal plant in Lansford, PA near Allentown. Elmer was Comtroller for many years before his first retirement in 1949.



Elmer cycling by the family home in Oaklyn, NJ in 1944.



Elmer's pocket watch




A good day Cobia fishing in 1944. Elmer, Blanche and son, George.



Blanche and Elmer in 1945.



Blanche and Elmer in 1945.



Dorothy with her husband Dan and their son David in 1947.



Elmer and Blanche fishing with David in 1949 out of Captain Starn's in Atlantic City. We filled a bushel basket!



Lit Brothers department store in Philadelphia,
where Blanche worked for many years.



Left to right: Augustus (Dan) Rathgeber, Frances (Nan) Rathgeber,
Blanche Moeller Riggins, and Elmer (the poet) Riggins in 1965.
'twas a wedding reception at Silver Lake Inn in Clementon, NJ.



Blance and Elmer on their last cruise in 1969.

"Together Forever"

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