Joseph Alward Family Videos

Alward Family Videos and Photos

Click here to visit Joe Alward's Vietnam Website. That's me below, on the right, manning the M-60 machine.
Minutes later we were hit by mortar fire.

Visit Madeline Vosburg's Website

Click here to visit MadelineVosburg.com, Elena Alward Vosburg's daughter and son's website.

Tami Alward's wedding photos. The June 2011 page of MadelineVosburg.com contains the videos and photos of Tami's wedding.

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Memories of Mom

Click here to read some of my memories of Mom. (A collection of a half-dozen very short anecdotes written by Joe Alward.)

Elena 1982

Linda and Joe Alward on their wedding day, May 20, 1978. Photo was taken in the backyard of Linda's parents' house.

Joe and Linda Alward in Cancun, 2011

Joe and Linda Alward, Santa Cruz, CA 1985.

Joseph F. Alward, Jr.
Photo taken at Trader Vic's at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, June, 1970, while on leave from Vietnam.

Joe Alward, June 2011

Joe Alward in 1970 and 2011

Dad and Elena, 1979

Joseph F. Alward, Jr
November, 2010

Grandparents Joe and Linda Alward, and Jim and Mary Kate Vosburg with grandaughter.

October 9, 2010. Tomas' birthday party.

3:05 PM, September 7, 2010, in the living room.

Linda and Joe at Casanova's Restaurant in August, 2010.

At the Olive Garden in Citrus Heights, April 25, 2010. Mom, Rodney,
Susan. Joey is the camera man. Video quality is very poor.

Christmas at Rod's house, December 2010.

Christmas at Rod's House, December 2010

Mom, December 25, 2010

Katrina's son, Ricky.

The house on the left is 1719 Pluto Way, which was the home of Joseph and Hazel Alward and family, from about 1955 throught 1978. During
those years, the house was green. The house on the right is the Brewton's home.


1969 or 1970 Christmas, Mary and JoAnn playing in the leaves in front of Pluto Way home. Sally, Dick, Mary and Joann buying Christmas tree, playing in the snow. Susie, boyfriend, Sally, Dick, Mary, JoAnn, Joey, Mom Miscellaneous other. Susie's friend, Judy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUIKTR3slI		1969 and 1970 Christmas. Sally, Dick, JoAnn, Mary, Mom, Susie, Joey, Rod. Mary and Joann in leaves

Christmas 1968-1969: Part One Rod’s drum set; Rod's dog, Napoleon; Susan with hair piece five inches tall, scene of Susan’s car accident, Sally and Dick’s reception following wedding, Rod and Dick Surber shooting baskets on Pluto Way, Chess Set, Rod’s baseball card collection, Rod’s bongo drums, Susan, Mom, Rod, Dad with pom-poms making entrance through bead curtain. Walk by the ocean ( Carmel?), Baby Mary and Sally, Dick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpU3BVFqSLU		Christmas 1968-1969 Part Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqpTF5cDP-s
1974-1980. Baby Katrina, Christmas 1979, Dad with Baby Elena, Elena's First steps, Tony, Susie, Lenore Gilmore (neighbor), Patrice gives Katrina a bath, Mary, JoAnn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CMwR-RHfGs		Christmas 1973 Dad distributes presents. Sally, Dick, Mary, JoAnn, Susan, Sally, Joey, Rod. Carl and Alta, Playing Dominoes, Easter, Rod Lifting Weights and Tanning in Pluto Way backyard, Tony and Susie's Wedding Reception, Linda looking very thin, Polly and Betty Parrott. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prSKbM4KJBg
(1959) Joey's Birthday, Family Praying at Christmas Dinner, Easter Dress-Up, Russian River, Rod and Joey in the Backyard, Rod climbing tree while Joanie Gilmore watches, Foresters Picnic in Sacramento at Shafftner's Lodge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX7w3GEx4n0		1958 Country Club Center Carnival, Alward Family Reunion, Backyard barbeques at Pluto Way house. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPLpWCzyrAA
Water skiing on the Sacramento River, about 1962, on Uncle George's boat (Dad's brother). Aunt Freda. Cliff House, rubbing Buddha's stomach, Grandmother Nellie (Mom's mother), and Uncle Glenn (Mom's brother) at William Land Park in Sacramento. House tour, Joey's coin collection, Susie and Sally's and Rod's rooms. Paintings by Dick Marcroft (neighbor) on the wall. Disneyland, Nancy's wedding. Nancy was Uncle Ed's daughter (Ed was Mom's brother). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK8kq6j07Xk		(1967) Skiing in Redding, Uncle Glenn's boat. Disneyland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYjSB098yhg
Portland trip to stay with Uncle Carl and Aunt Alta while Dad attends electronics conference. Stay in Orick, CA, at inn owned by Dad's cousin; riding the horse at Orick. Rod's birthday party. Playing in the snow. Pluto Way Easter Egg Hunt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rex1grB8O_Q		Susan's 8th Grade Graduation ceremony, Swimming in Uncle Ted's Doughboy Swimming Pool, Joey's first car, Dad Scuba Diving, Skiing at Folsom Lake with the Marcroft's, Susan on stilts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MWItsHog1o
Santa Cruz, 1971 Christmas, Mary and JoAnn Easter Egg Hunt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rl7NlPRDhI		Joe and Linda, Elena, Tom and Madeline, Tami, Rod, Beau, Ryan, and Patrice, and Susan, leaving the Olive Garden.