Historic Hood River
Research Needed
3-10-2022
Notes
We need to call out the genealogy sleuths for this one. I think the architecture and ornament on this building are striking, but I’m not sure if it is/was in Hood River. It’s from a collection donated by Pansy Travis Diskin. Her name is written on each photo in a shaky hand. In what looks like a contemporaneous not in ink, it says “Our Home.” In pencil above that note someone else added “Aunt Mary & Dora’s”. Can someone tie Mary and Dora to Pansy Diskin and a location?
Norma
Pansy Diskin was a first grade teacher at Coe Primary. Her daughter Carolyn was in my class but she has passed away. I think they lived on the heights but this house does not look like something I can see in that area.
Alan
I found this:
Pansy Travis b.5 Feb 1900 – died Dec 1986, buried in Mt View cem.HR
married in 1962 to John T Diskin He lived at 1125 5th St.
Their daughter Carolyn Ann born 5 Oct.1941 in Chehalis.
She married in 1962
Melody Shellman
The roof reminds me of the house just west of May Street
School on May Street.
Stever
Nice weather vane up top! … What’s that on the porch ? The porch roofs and side bump out appear to have little pitch or slope.
L.E.
Well Arthur, I spent quite a while this morning trying to make a connection, but I never found a Dora in Pansy's family nor in the John Thomas Diskin family. There are some Marys on her mother's side of the Illinois family.
Pansy Travis was born to Bennet and Julia Hollenberg Travis in 1900 in Nebraska. She was the youngest of nine. Her mother passed in 1909. Her father remarried a young bride and they moved to Colorado.
While in Colorado, Pansy married Thomas Diskin in 1928. In the 1930 census they are in Colorado but in 1940 they have moved to Lewis County Washington where Thomas worked on a dam.
Bill Seaton
I was in Mrs Diskin's first grade class along with Norma and Carolyn. I remember it as being a fun class.