On the Lake

William Dobbin, Barbara, Blanche, and Wallace Dobbin  

Wally, Blanche, and Barbara Dobbin spent the summer of 1935 in Glenwood, Minnesota with Wally's father and family. William James Dobbin - "Big Papa", was a retired postman and in the late 1800's had emigrated to America, via Canada, from Antrim, Northern Ireland. William's first wife was Birdie Mae Peacock, but had died when Wally was about 8. William's second wife whom he married in 1916, was Alice Cryrus.