Dad's Early Days

Roy's mother Ferne with her younger sisters Opal and Loie

Roy's mother Ferne Bott Gaunt

Roy's father Arnold Gaunt

Roy and his mother Ferne at his christening

Cypress elementary school 4th and 5th grade, October 1933
left to right
Bobby Robbinson, Marion Stocks, Billy Bingham, Patty Jean Cawther (?), Louise Dewey, Manuel Acosta, Leonard Smith, Martha Swidret (?), June Kelly, Melvin Pugh, Roger Siples (?), Richard Hamberg, Lillian Bradley, Ledford (?), Mary Catherine Naiser, Prudence Ledford, Salvador Samly(?), Esther Beatcheler (?), Vermon Holmes, Mary Cota, Roy Edward Gaunt, Sabina Acosta, Merrel Taylor (?), Jean "Ms. Williams", Violet Sewell, Joe Shea, Nina Remington, Herbie Busch, Geraldine Swindlay, Eddie Anderson, Lorraine Sexton, Leana M., Tom Tanaka, Miss Tanaka, Laurence Beasley, Teddy Campbell