Grampa Max and AJ
Vincent Maximilian Patureau with his grandson Alcide Joseph Landry
This is another photo that I got from my visit with my Uncle A. J. a few months ago. Obviously most of those photos were focused on A. J. They were photos for him after all. But they also included photos of the family. I had never seen most of those photos. Some of them were similar to others that I already had. All of them (well, maybe not all of them) were treasures to keep and share.
I really like this one. In the front of the photo is my dad’s mom’s dad. He was my great grandfather Vincent Maximilian Patureau. Of course we all know him as Grampa Max. (You say the ‘grampa’ part to kinda rhyme with Santa. Accent on first syllable and and short -puh at the end.) The little boy on the hood of the car is little A. J. in 1925. At least that’s what I estimated. He was born in June of 1924 and looks about a year or so old. He looks a little fascinated with the car. And he got to sit right on top of it. Grandparents are just great!
As I mentioned previously, my dad and his siblings didn’t know all of their grandparents. And the two that they had didn’t live long after my dad was born. Poor little Johnny, the youngest, was born after all four grandparents had passed. A. J. was the oldest son (Aunt Marie was the oldest), so he had them until he was about ten years old. When I visited and asked him about some of the photos, he talked about Grampa Max and Grandma Celeste like he had just seen them a few days earlier. He definitely had some fond memories of them. I’m glad that he was willing to share them with us. Enjoy.