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The Fourth Generation — line in George Wagner's second family:

— via Billy Eugene Wagner, with wife Alice Loraine (Tennis) Wagner:

(For photographs of Alice Loraine, see Tennis Family Photographs.)

Judith Anne and Billy Eugene Wagner II,
ages 4 and a half, and 1 and a half.



Summer 1951, San Diego — after a fishing trip off the coast of Mexico:
Left, Eugene Moore, with Billy Eugene Wagner holding an albacore caught by son Billy Eugene II.

Eugene was the husband of "Aunt Annie" (Beck) Moore, and he provided the Wagners their middle names.


Billy Eugene Wagner with children
Billy Eugene II and Judith Anne,
somewhere in the West, mid-1950s.

Each summer vacation between 1951 and 1956, when they moved to California, the Wagners drove from Kansas City to visit Eugene and "Aunt Annie" (Beck) Moore, and Robert Albert Wagner, who had left the Kansas City enclave when Robert was transferred to Colton [San Bernardino County] by the Santa Fe Railroad.




Judith Anne Wagner, 1953, age 13.




Judith Anne Wagner
senior class photo, San Juan High School,
Fair Oaks, California, 1959


February 1984, Sacramento:
(Left to right:)
Billy Eugene II, Billy Eugene Wagner
and Judith Anne (Wagner) Heier.

1983, at San Francisco Bay:
Judith Anne (Wagner) and husband Helmut Heier
with children, left to right:
Joel, Amy, and Abigail.

 

 

Et plus ça change . . .


1949 @ 6
1958 @ 15



1962 @ 19

May 2005 on the Klamath River in northern California, vacationing with Leander Phillip Clifford VI.
 




Royal Esmond Silvear
24 Sep 1893 – 19 Jul 1990

Roy is included here as sort of an "honorary Wagner" — for all practical purposes, he took the place of my rather indifferent grandfathers, and became a very formative exemplar.

His paternal family was Portuguese, from the Azores, but he was a native-born Californian.

He had endless stories to tell — including memories of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and how the interruption of salt shipments to his home area in Monterey County forced dairymen that year to make cheese without adequate salt . . . which inadvertently created a new variety — thought terribly insipid at the time, but now popular as "Monterey Jack."

Or how there were just two ways to get down to Los Angeles when he was a boy:
• the old coastal / "mission route," El Camino Real, now Highway 101; and
• a Central Valley dirt buggy trail which wound up, through, and over the Tehachapi range, so twisting and turning that they called it "the Grapevine" — now multi-lane Interstate I-5.

Roy gathered and sold California and Oregon wildflower bulbs, and many summers I accompanied him on lengthy collecting / camping trips into the mountains.  He also cured olives, and I helped during fall olive harvests.  He made whole barrels of kosher pickles and sauerkraut.  He and wife Viola ("Vi") were a weekend feature at the local farmers market in Roseville, and regular buyers came from as far as "the City" (San Francisco) just to stock up on his various tasty products.

— Notes by the researcher, Billy Eugene Wagner II.
These photographs of Roy are frames excerpted from digitized 8mm film taken in 1959.  Although not of the highest quality due to film age and condition, they are, nonetheless, evocative.
Here, he does look a bit stern, but in fact was jovial, mellow, and wise.