Early Wednesday morning Mrs. Charles Wille started her chores as she does every day on the Wille place 21⁄2 miles south of Piqua. First stop was their barn to fetch grain to feed a calf.
This time a nagging mystery cropped up.
“It was right there, lying in front of the barn door,” Wille said of a color snapshot of what appears to be a grandmother, lying in a hospital-type bed with a big smile on her face. Sitting on the side of the bed, with smiles just as broad, are three youngsters, two boys and a girl.
“Bet they’re her grandchildren,” Wille said.
The discovery came after three days of severe weather, including the devastating tornado in Joplin and others in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Wille wonders if the photo got caught in an updraft and flew all the way to Woodson County before being deposited just outside her back door.
The only clue to who might be pictured are some numbers on the back, including five, 66770, which she thought probably were a zip code.
If that is the case, the numbers match up to Riverton, five miles north of Baxter Springs in Cherokee County and well within the path of several of the intense storms.
Wille intends to pursue identity of the woman and kids in the photo, with hopes of getting it back in the owner’s hands.
Stay tuned.
Photo baffles woman near Piqua
