A black and white photograph of two older women and two older men. All of the people in the picture are wearing black. The women stand at either end, with the two men in the middle. The women both have their hair pulled back. The older man wears a black hat, and has a long beard.

Helen Grenus donated a photo of her aunts, fatherm and grandfather. Her aunts made a quilt which she donated to the Hellenic Museum.

Both aunts lived to be 100. They made the wool red spread that was donated. They spun the wool, dyed it red and sewed the flowers on. They lived in Crete. They gave the spread to her father when he visited Crete in 1955. He was there to visit his father, Basil, who was 106 in 1954. Mike Pappas, her father, moved to illinois as a young man. He was borning 1-16-1892 and died in March 1975. he married Mary Klakowish in 1923.

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