Eesley · Wildermuth

Jeanne Eesley Kamiab

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Aunt Jeanne is one of the keepers of the family memory this site rests on. Her contributions across this archive include the oral-history account of Stella Sunn — how she came to live with the Eesleys through the wartime journey via Hawaii, the Philippines, and finally Ohio — and a substantial set of the family photographs that appear in the artifacts collection. Her brother Charlie’s 12th-grade autobiography names her engagement and June 1965 wedding to Joseph “Joe” Kamiab; the Will and Peggy Eesley family portrait with Joe, c. 1965 captures the whole family — Will, Peggy, Charlie, Anne, Maggie, Jeanne herself, and Joe — together at or around that wedding. Her daughter Stephanie “Stephie” Kamiab is named in passing in Charlie’s late-1970 Vietnam letter to Terrie as the small child who already called Terrie “Aunt Terrie” before the wedding.

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Bride and groom at the altar — likely Jeanne Eesley and Joseph Kamiab, June 1965 (cast confirmation queued)
Bride and groom at the altar — likely Jeanne Eesley and Joseph Kamiab, June 1965 (cast confirmation queued) · c. 1965 (queued)
Will and Peggy Eesley with Charlie, Jeanne, and Anne on the Black Lake dock, c. 1950–1952
Will and Peggy Eesley with Charlie, Jeanne, and Anne on the Black Lake dock, c. 1950–1952 · c. 1950-1952
Eesley family reunion at Highland Ridge — c. 1973 (color frame)
Eesley family reunion at Highland Ridge — c. 1973 (color frame) · c. 1973
The Will and Peggy Eesley family with Joe Kamiab — c. 1965, around Jeanne and Joe's June wedding
The Will and Peggy Eesley family with Joe Kamiab — c. 1965, around Jeanne and Joe's June wedding · c. 1965
The three eldest Eesley children — Jeanne, Anne, and infant Charlie, c. 1948–1950
The three eldest Eesley children — Jeanne, Anne, and infant Charlie, c. 1948–1950 · c. 1948–1950