Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden Editor's Note: Sunday brought the Reunion crowd another gorgeous, sunny day. The Buehler Enabling Garden was exclusively set aside for the Canavan Reunion group, as was our exclusive tram tour of the Garden's 385 acres. [...]
2021-18 Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II
Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II The Parish family tree shows that Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes’s daughter Catherine Canavan married William Wallace Parish II. They raised their family in Momence, Illinois. Their third of four [...]
Mary Gwinn Bowe Photos (1901-1979)
Mary Gwinn Bowe Photos As happened not infrequently in those days, when Mary Gwinn Bowe entered the world in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901, her mother, Mary Roche Gwinn, left it. Her father, Richard Gwinn, Jr. immediately turned to his [...]
2021 The Skura Family
Editor's Note: In the summer of 1976, I was visiting my mother Mary Gwinn Bowe at her apartment when Ova Parish dropped by.
2021 The Parish Families
The first thing to know about the Parish families over the generations is that many of the males have William as a first name. Many others share the name Varnum or Anthony. Of those named William, about half have [...]
The Children of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes
Long story short: they quit after 13.
Cathy Parish Skura Remembers her Parents’ Era in Momence, Illinois
Editor's Note: Cathy Parish Skura may have left Momence to live elsewhere as an adult, but she didn't leave fond memories behind. The Paris Bank, founded in 1914, was private until it became state-chartered in the 1920s as Parish [...]
Skura and Grubert Family Trees
William Wallace Parish and Ova Frantz Parish's daughter Catherine Ann Parish married John Joseph Skura. John was born January 10, 1943. They have four children: Michael, Eugene, Carrie and Anna. Michael Jon Skura was born on [...]
