Billie Thompson in front of a family house on Burch Avenue, Durham, North Carolina. Age 17, so 1940. They had just moved across the street to 1010 Burch Ave. from the house in the background. The car belonged to a boy in the neighborhood and they used it to drive to school in good weather; drove Minnie’s 1938 Buick in bad weather.

At the new Mebane post office with unknown/unremembered guy.

Billie Thompson Rugo’s wedding in Durham, North Carolina in 1943.

Billie Rugo with her sister Trannie Pope and Dianne and Bob Rugo at Carcassonne, Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Billie Rugo on the terrace at Carcassonne, Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Billie Rugo at the Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, Massachusetts.

At Carcasonne with Terri Ann, Rhoda, and Beatrice

Billie Rugo in the Owl Club garden for Bob’s Harvard graduation, June 1966.