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Moss Family Movies, 1957-58

This clip starts out with Margery Moss’ flower and rock gardens in Toledo, Oregon. It then shifts to Banks, Oregon and their Grandma Ober’s house for Easter, 1957. It then shows the church where Roy and Margery Moss were married (9-12-1942) on the Clatsop Plains in Oregon. Daffodils make up the cross on the ground in front of the church. The clip ends at Johnny and Jean Kraft’s house outside Astoria, Oregon, where Johnny Kraft and Margery Moss are shown, in 1957.
This is a camping trip to an unknown location in 1957. Margery, Mary Lou, Roy, and Mardean Moss are shown.
Mary Lou and Mardean Moss playing on swings. Also pictured is Leslie Miller, their next door neighbor who owned a florist/nursery, planting a garden in Toledo, Oregon, in 1957. Also pictured is Margery Moss’ flowers and yard.
This is a scan of the Toledo, Oregon area in 1957, showing the area lumber mills, a field of foxgloves, and the almost completed Georgia Pacific pulp mill.
Roy and Margery Moss were very involved in the Toledo Elks. This is a float that the Elks built for a parade in 1957.
Looks like a picnic at first, but then it is Mary Lou and Mardean Moss jumping waves in 1957.
Scenic shots of unknown forest, lake, and mountains, ending with smoke from a major forest fire in 1957.
This is Easter, 1957, in Vancouver, Washington, at Mary Jane and Glenn Stilwell’s house. Mary Lou finds a real egg! Mardean is missing because she is at the Shriner’s Hospital in Portland. Pictured are Mary Lou Moss, Glenn Stilwell, Margery Moss, and Mary Jane Stilwell.
Roy, Margery, and Mary Lou Moss visit Mardean at the Shriner’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Mardean had a back problem possibly caused by Polio that she was having repaired. She would be there for four months in 1957.
Unknown ladies modeling their roaring ’20s outfits.
This is David and Douglas Krahmer in 1957.
Mardean Moss is just home from the Shriner’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. She is playing badminton with her sister Mary Lou in 1957.
Mary Lou Moss is washing her bike at her house in Toledo, Oregon. Then it is Mardean and Margery Moss camping at Fort Stevens, Oregon. Also pictured are the Peter Iradale wreck, hula hooping, and Roy Moss in 1958.
Shots of an unknown location, and then Mardean and Mary Lou Moss are riding their bikes at their house in Toledo, Oregon, in 1958.
An unknown house is being torn down in 1958.
Vena Ober is arranging family groups at her home in Banks, Oregon, in 1958. The clip starts with Emil Gieszler and his children, Don, Ken, Lynette, and Ron. Also pictured are Debbie Prickett and her brother, Roy Moss, Mardean Moss, Mary Lou Moss, and Myrle Prickett.
The 1958 Pendleton Roundup parade in Pendleton, Oregon.