The Whole Famn Damily
The people of I Hope to Die on the Dance Floor of the Jack Tarr Hotel
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Pauline & Libby, late 1930s
Pauline as a teen in the early 1930s
Pauline in Pearl Harbor during WWII
Sugar with Dawn & Herby, Hugo Steet, 1960
Pauline & her waitresses, Barfields' Restaurant, 1950s
Sugar with Dawn & Libby at a Twenties-themed party aboard the QEII in 1973, She danced the Charleston that night and again at Dawn's wedding in 1986
Libby, trying to keep up with the Durham HIgh School Marching Band, the day Herb fell in love with her
Elizabeth "Libby" Barfield, during her skinny and awkward period, around age 14, visiting Down Home with Pauline and Tommy
Libby, Barfield's Restaurant, 1952
A teenage
Libby
Libby, 2016
Herb, right, with his half-brother Robert, during The War
In Korea, early '50s
Herb & Libby on their wedding day
Herb & Libby on the day they brought Herby home from the hospital, May 1954
Herbert's mother, Annie Maude Stinson
Herbert's father, Raymond, who died runnin' 'shine at age 27
Herb & Libby, newlyweds
Herbert "Whitey" Bennett, career merchant seaman
A defeated man's I.D.
Herby at 2
Herby at 10
Herby at 14
Herby at 26
Herby, 7, and Dawn, age 6
Dawn -1956-----------1960-------------1967--------------1979---------------1986--------------2009----------------2018------------2025
Tommy Barfield, from Cub Scout to juvenile delinquent to ladies man
Bruce, Tommy's first Electra 225
Tommy and Ann, his second wife and one true love
One of Tommy's last photos
The sweet and ever-faithful Aunt Hattie, with Dal and Pauline, left, and her husband, Tom, who died so young.
Albert and Addie Holloman as newlyweds and on their 50th anniversary.
Grandfather and Grandmother Holloman with 11 of their 14 children
Great-grandmother, grandmother, mother and Dawn at a Galloway family reuniton around 1965. Less than 10 years later, Erica, would make five living generations. (Addie died when her great-great granddaughter was seven.)
Bill Bowling with Libby at the opening of a new wing of Westhaven Nursing Home, 1967 in Portsmouth, Va., and the year before in Durham, N.C.
Bill and Dawn sharing a laugh circa 1990
Linda with her huband Randy in mid 1970s
Linda as a freshly minted teen
Linda's baby, Traci, born 1965
Linda with Libby, who is cooing over newborn Erica
With Tommy Barfield at Dawn's wedding to Erich, 1973
Erich, as a happy groom with his unhappy bride, a cult-leader wannabe, and a newlywed.