CHRIS FORHAN

POET & MEMOIRIST

PHOTOS FROM MY FATHER BEFORE ME

  • Ellen Forhan, Ed’s paternal grandmother, and her daughter Margaret (later Sister Dolorita), ca. 1906

  • Nat (Ed’s father, back row left) and his siblings, mid-1920s

  • Nat (back row left) and his siblings and parents, early 1930s

  • Ellen and Thomas Forhan, Ed’s paternal grandparents, early 1930s

  • Julia (Guiney) Shawen, Ed’s paternal great grandmother, early 1930s

  • Nat (second from left) and his siblings, ca. 1946-47

  • The Forhan nuns (Nat’s sisters): Lucille, Pauline, Marie, and Dolorita

  • Bernadine Carey, Ed’s mother

  • Bernadine Carey

  • Bernadine Carey, maybe eighth grade

  • Edwin Peterson, Ange’s father, ca. 1929

  • Esther and Ange, ca. 1934

  • Esther and daughters Janet, Ange, and Janice, ca. 1939

  • Ange, 1946

  • Seattle Times article on Skippy drowning, 1936

  • Ed (back row right) as altar boy

  • Jim (Ed’s brother, second boy from left) as altar boy

  • Ed’s home in his teenage years

  • Ed (second row from top, fourth from right) in boot camp, 1946

  • Ed (at right) and Marine buddies, Honolulu, 1947

  • Ed, 1948

  • Blessed Sacrament Church, site of Ed and Ange’s wedding

  • Ed and Ange, 1949

  • The first home bought by Ed and Ange

  • Ed, his maternal grandmother Margaret Carey, and Terry, Patty, and Peggy, 1957

  • Ed, 1958

  • Ed at twenty-nine

  • Kevin and Chris, 1960

  • Chris, Dana, and Kevin, 1966

  • Ed in Seattle Times, 1967

  • Chris and Patty, 1967

  • Kevin and Chris, 1971

  • Chris, Kevin, and Dana, 1980

  • Chris at news desk, 1984