P365 Day 4: '40s beauty queen

This summer, I've been scanning old letters and photos from the Crawford family trunk. Most are older than this newspaper clipping of my paternal grandmother, Jane (left), from 1941, but I still felt this relevant to share for P365. This photo was taken at what is now the University of Memphis. (I'm a 3rd-gen Tiger. I bleed blue.)

Actually, as an aside, Grandmother met my Papa at the university in the '40s when they both were students. She was a cook for the football team, and he was a football player. Proof positive the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Grandmother was a Navy wife who lived at various times in Texas, California, Virginia and Africa, among other places. She and Papa had long settled back in Memphis by the time I was born, and I fondly remember spending summer afternoons at their house with my cousin Ashley. Grandmother served the same lunch every day: peanut butter sandwiches "without the ruffles," Pringles, Coca-Cola, and, if we were good, a fun-size Snickers bar from the bag she hid in the bottom of her cabinet.

So there you have it. Old photo, new scan ... and another piece of the Kate puzzle.