Keating Ancestry

Cousin Petra sent me this photo and it is so terrific, I felt it merited a blog posting.  Although the photo is undated, Petra thinks it is from around 1955.  Thanks to Petra, we know all of the people in the photo: Back row: Father Laurence, Irma Manning, Alice Stevens, Genie Lynch, Jean Marie Manning Front row: Edward (Buzz) Manning, Eleanor "Lillie" Motie Keating (seated), Petra Manning Steele, in the very  front holding a chicken Mary Manning (Emily Skafish's mom!). Date and place.  Although we do not know the exact date, from the ages of everyone present, we think it is 1954 or 1955.  We also think it is springtime.  Springtime in Chicago often includes coats, but little Mary is holding a chicken and Petra remembers that one year they got chickens in their Easter baskets (I'm guessing you only do that once!)   The photo is taken in front of Irma and Ed Manning's home in Chesterton, Indiana.  Eleanor was widowed in late 1944 and moved to Indiana with Irma and