Young Jason McVay Austin, Jr. (1915-1996)

Unfamiliar family photographs from my mom's archives.

Baby Mac, born in the Philippines, Nov 1915.

Mac, born 1915 & the first of eight, with sister (r) Claude Fay Austin Bass (1917-1992).
At Corregador during WWI; note the barbed wire to the left.

Dad's five Austin sisters & mother in 1942, (left to right): Alice Doyen (1920-1993); 

Ruth Raymonde (1919-?); Claude Fay (1917-1992); Mother Ruth Alice Doyen Austin 
(1894-1954); Emily McVay (1924-1978); Betsy McVay (1927-?)

Dad's Mom & Dad in the 1930s: 

Ruth Alice Doyen Austin (1894-1954) &  Jason McVay Austin (1886-1966)

About 1940: Dad & his mom. (Where we get the pale pale blue eyes.)

About 1937: Dad & his maternal Grandmother Claude Fay Doyen (1871-1943). Her parents were Julia Griswold Phillips, from Newport, and William Wirt Fay, an English professor at West Point and the US Naval Academy for 36 years. She was married to General Charles Augustus Doyen (1859-1918).

Dad at 19, about 1934.

Dad (far right) at OWU, class of 1937.

Dad (second from right) at OWU, 1937.

Dad, c. 1937.

Dad, c. 1935

New grad dad in Charleston, West Virginia, 1937.

Dad in Charleston, West Virginia,  1937.

Jason McVay Austin, Jr. at 24.
Hunting in West Virginia c.1939, before the US entered WWII in 1941.
Dad served in the Marines throughout WWII and the Korean War, 
as a Lieutenant Colonel. Mom & Dad were married in Oct.1945.