Belleville

Rena and I spent the weekend visiting my cousin Joy and her husband Tom in New Hudson, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.  Joy's father and my mother grew up in the Detroit area, children of Oscar and Ruth Schulert.  All of my lifetime, Grandma and Grandpa lived on Belleville Road not far from the Ypsilanti Airport, where the Ford Motor Company built B-24 bombers in World War II. 

Grandma's and Grandpa's house on Belleville Road as it looks today

Sunday afternoon we drove by the house where our grandparents lived and then visited the cemetery where Grandpa's and Grandma's earthly remains are buried.  They were born in the 1880s--it boggles the mind how technology has changed since then.

Joy (my cousin) and I at the Belleville cemetery at our grandparents' headstones

On our way back to New Hudson we drove to Willow Run Airport.  The Yankee Air Museum is there and although there wasn't time to visit the whole museum, we stopped by a storage area and looked through the fence at some of the museum's aircraft.

As an Army Air Corp aircraft mechanic, my dad attended the B-24 school at Willow Run during WWII, and that allowed Dad and Mom to meet.

Tom and I looking at museum planes