Hollingworth Family | Hollingsworth and Berch

: Almarian Hollingsworth (right), medical technologist, Charity Hospital in New Orleans (1945), post-graduate training in parasitology (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Almarian and F.W. Hollingsworth (1948) grow the family to four members at this location on Miles Avenue in El Reno before returning to Oklahoma City where Dr. Hollingsworth entered a surgical residency. The family later returned to El Reno where Dr. F.W. Hollingsworth practiced medicine until his retirement (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Sunday dinner at Arrie and Lula’s house in Oklahoma City (circa 1954): From L to R — Arrie Combs, “Aunt Jessie” (Lula’s youngest sister), Almarian Berch Hollingsworth, author Alan Berch Hollingsworth (in suspenders and bowtie), “Uncle Barrett and Aunt Nettie” (parents of Brigadier General Glenn Collins, MD (Nettie was one of Lula’s sisters), Susan Hollingsworth, and in profile closest to the camera, Lula. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Governor of Oklahoma Johnston Murray (left) and Dr. F.W. Hollingsworth (right) in a 1954 clipping from The Daily Oklahoman publicizing a Jaycee convention.

: Susan and Alan Hollingsworth as part of a 1955 photo-feature about children and their pets in The Daily Oklahoman

: Almarian, Alan and Susan demonstrate the new automobile accessory – seat belts (1955 clipping from The Daily OKlahoman)

: L to R (1957) — Dawn Hollingsworth, Susan Hollingsworth, “Taffy,” and Lula Berch Reynolds in the background fixing her screen door (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: The Hollingsworth family Christmas card in 1956, showing the house in El Reno as it was at the time of purchase. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Almarian addresses an assembly of Girl Scouts and Brownies in the auditorium of Hillcrest school in El Reno, Oklahoma (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Dawn Hollingsworth and Susan Hollingsworth practicing cheers in the backyard of the Hollingsworth home in El Reno. Dawn began her adult career in lighting and set design in Chicago theater, and later Los Angeles, before entering commercial lighting ventures. Susan followed Almarian’s footsteps into medical technology, later entering lab management at Smith, Kline & French before retiring to an active life in Malvern, Pennsylvania. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Dawn and Alan Hollingsworth in the living room of the El Reno home, circa 1959. The Hollingsworth family was never without pets. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Susan, Alan and Dawn (at front), with Francis and Almarian at the back of the boat, modeling their hand-made (by Almarian) swimming attire, with colors matching the color scheme of the boat. The boat’s name (FASAD) was an acronym based on the first letter of each family member’s name, according to age. Almarian was the force behind these measures, likely generated from her childhood in boarding school, a part-time family, no father, and no siblings. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Winter Park, Colorado – few children were seen on the slopes in the 1950s when skis were wooden and boots lace-up, but snow skiing was an important part of Hollingsworth family life. L to R: Susan, Almarian, Dawn, Alan, Francis. In spite of her small stature in this picture, Dawn (middle) would later serve as captain of the ski team at Colorado Women’s College in the early 1970s. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Dinner with both grandmothers at the Hollingsworth home in 1967. L to R: Myrtle Hollingsworth, Alan Berch Hollingsworth, Lula Berch Reynolds, Almarian Berch Hollingsworth. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: Almarian and Francis Hollingsworth in 1988, toward the end of their healthy years. Dr. F. W. Hollingsworth had just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and would succumb to its effects in 2000, while Almarian’s health declined slowly thereafter, passing in 2011 at the age of 89. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: The Hollingsworth “kids” with Mildred Russworm at her home in El Reno, Oklahoma in 1989. Although Mildred was 84 at the time of this photograph, she would live to age 90. The portrait on the wall behind the group is Mildred’s daughter Gwen who died of breast cancer at a young age. (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: The last of the bloodline of Albert and Lula Berch, photo taken in the late 1980s. L to R: Susan Hollingsworth Aggarwal, Alan Berch Hollingsworth, Dawn Marie Hollingsworth. Although blessed with extended and blended families, the DNA of Albert and Lula stops here (from the Hollingsworth family collection)