Mary, Connie, Grandma, and Walter Herrala

Leo, Walter, Sulo

Alta, Lina, Sofia, Raymond

Sulo, Leo, and Walter with Baby Alta                                                Sofia, Leo, Lina, Sulo, Alta

                         

 

Sofia with Lina and Alta

            

 

 

The Herrala 1967 Family Reunion at Spring Lake Michigan

The Herrala 1967 Family Reunion

The wedding of our Grandparents John and Sofia Herrala   August 5, 1905

Walter, Sophie, and Raymond Herrala, June 24, 1939

Leo Herrala college graduation, circa 1935

Connie Herrala

Auntie Alta with Connie, Marcia, Lana, Ilona and Baby Wally  in 1944 or 1945

 

The Kero Family in Lapua Finland: Jaakko, (our great Uncle who   was murdered in Butte Montana, Our Great Grandmother

    Serafiina Volborg Muilu-Kero and Sanna Maria

Aunt Lina and Aunt Alta Herrala

 

Sanna Maria and John Kangas with boys: John and Ralph

Sophie Herrala and her sister Sanna Maria at the Kangas Farm in   New Ipswich about 1943

 

Jaakko Juhari, Serafiina Volborg Muilu - Kero and Sanna Maria Kero. This is the oldest picture of the Kero Family especially the only one of our Great Grandmother Serafiina Kero. Jaakko was murdered in Butte Montana in a saloon trying to stop a fight. He was only 26 year old when he died and the only Kero boy to have carred the Kero name. All the other boys born to Matts and Serafiina died either in childhood and one died in his teens.

Mike Selnik, Walt Herrala, Connie,

Mary Herrala, and Ann Blazik at

lake Michigan                                                   Connie Herrala                                        Connie, Mary, and Walt Herrala

Connie Herrala                                                          Wally Herrala                                    Connie at Christmas

Herrala cousins enjoying Lake Michigan

Linda Jo Herrala                                                      Aunt Alta and Uncle Sulo

Connie, baby Lana, and Mary Herrala

Sulo, Alta, Lana, and Connie at the "blockhouse"

near Lake Michigan in the late 40's

Walt Herrala, Lana, Connie, Wally, and Mary

Wally Herrala in first Grade at Sacred Heart School

Walter, Mary, Mary's sister, Della, and Leo

Our Grandmother- She married John Herrala on her

birthday when she was 24

John Herrala reads Finnish newspaper in

a Minnesota iron mine

John and Sofia's Wedding Party August 5, 1905

John Herrala 1901

 Victor circa 1918

Victor and his wife Maria and children circa 1924

Babes, Lina and Alta, at Sardi's in New York City, circa 1939

Marija Looks like Lina

                        

Sulo and Leo 1939                                                           Grandma Herrala

             

Sulo Fought in WW-2                                           Sulo, Leo, Alta, Walter "Baldy", and Lina

Aunt Alta with Trophy (lake trout)                                     Connie, Lina, Della, Lana, Mary, Alta, and Wally

Juho and Lusiina Herrala and sons
  Matts and John on far right (our Grandfather)

        

John Herrala's Sister in Finland

Maria Lydia Herrala

Herrala's 1967 Family Reunion