Ron and Sue Wall - Our Family Photos

May 1970, on our way to New York to catch our flight to Italy stopped to see Wayne and Iva Whitsett (Sue's dad and stepmother), in the Boston Mountains north of Cedarville, Arkansas

May 1970, Bruce, Tonya and Grandpa Wayne; he was the pastor of a small church located in the Ozark National Forest

Map of southern Italy showing Brindisi; our base was the 6917th Security Group at San Vito dei Normanni Air Base about six miles due west of Brindisi

Our son Bruce on the balcony of our apartment No. 100 Via A Grande in Commenda, a suburb of Brindisi. We were on the first floor of a seven story building.

Bruce on Via Apia (the Appian Way) Brindisi near the harbor. The Apia Way is the ancient Roman road that ran from Rome to Brindisi.  One of the ancient Roman columns that stood at the harbor and marked the end of the road can be see in the background

Bruce at the ancient Roman columns that have welcomed incoming ships and people for more than 2000 years. One collapsed centuries ago, the other now wears a protective girdle

1971, Sue and the kids with our young Italian maid Wilma and her boy friend Walter Francavilla; the town of Francavilla Fontana was named for his family

Bruce and the Roman Column and steps leading down to the water at the harbor

Wilma, our live-in maid and baby sitter and boy friend Walter in our apartment in Commenda, Brindisi, Italy

Alberobello, Italy and trulli houses. Alberobello is about 60 miles north of Brindisi and is world famous for these unique houses built 100 years before Columbus sailed to America. The houses were built using no mortar. The town is also famous for woven wool bed covers.

1971 beach on the Adriatic at Rosa Marina near Ostuni, Italy, Bruce, Wilma, Sue, Wilma's little cousin and Tonya at left; friends Don Webb with daughter under the unbrella and Sharon Webb in the lounge chair; I'm in the orange rubber boat snorkeling just beyond the breaking wave

Bruce and Tonya, me in the rubber raft, Rosa Marina, Ostuni, Italy

1971 - Italy

No. 100 Via A Grande, Brindisi, Italy

1971 - Brother Art, wife Denise, their children Stephanie (left) and Jennifer came to visit us in Italy from Rota, Spain where Art was stationed with the Navy

1971 - Tonya, Stephanie and Bruce, Brindisi, Italy

1972 - Moon over St. Peter's Square, Rome, Italy; at right, the Vatican Hall of Maps with friends Walt and Marge Cunningham, daughters Stacy and Shelby. We all traveled together to Rome

L-R: Marge, Stacy (behind Marge), Tonya, Shelby, Bruce (blue shirt) Walt and Sue

Stacy, Tonya, Bruce, Marge and Sue

In side St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican

1972 St. Peter's Vatican

Bruce, Tonya with Stacy and Shelby Cunningham, Rome, Italy, June 1972

Trevi Fountain in Rome; Sue is tossing a coin over her left shoulder to ensure she returns to Rome. Apparently the spell doesn't work.

Tonya, Bruce, Shelby and Stacy Cunningham, Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy, June 1972

Bruce, Tonya, Jennifer and Heidi Rudd at the Midieval castle in Oria, Brindisi Provence, in southern Italy; 1972

Tonya and Bruce in front of our apartment, No. 100 Via Grande, Brindisi, Italy, 1972

Our live-in baby sitter, maid, sometimes cook, family member Wilma (pronounced Vil-ma) and her fiance Walter (pronounced Val-ter) Francavia from Francavia Fontana, Italy. His prominent family did not approve much of his engagement to a peasant girl like Wilma.

Bruce's 8th birthday party, Jan. 1973, Brindisi, Italy

Jan. 1973, from left to right: Jennifer and Heidie Rudd, daughters of friends Reggie and Glenna Rudd

at the end of the table Shelby Cunningham and the two daughters of our Italian next door neighbors, the DeGuidos

6 February 1973, Last day in Italy; Minerva motel across the road from the base, San Vito Dei Normani, 6917th Security Squadron.

7 February 1973, 30,000 feet over the Swiss Alps enroute from Brindisi, Italy to JFK in New York City

Ronald N. Wall

Modified: 19 January 2023