Lois (left) and Ruth (right) Morris dressed in uniform for their jobs at Miles Laboratories, Elkhart, Indiana. Dora Belle Keller and my grandmother, Lois Eleanor Morris, were not exactly friends at Bristol High School in Indiana. After graduation in 1938, they went their separate ways. Lois’s family moved to Elkhart where, as war-time production ramped up, she and her younger sister, Ruth, went to work at Miles Laboratories. Miles Laboratories produced pharmaceuticals and pac

Bill Morris (1895-1975) circa 1910-1912 with an unidentified companion (left). As I was growing up, I frequently heard about my great-grandfather William "Bill" Morris's days as a vaudeville stagehand in Muskegon, Michigan. The story never included many details; nonetheless, Grandma liked to show us the photograph of her father dressed up as a western cowboy (pictured on the right), posed with an unidentified companion (pictured on the left), and refer to his "vaudeville days