Showing posts with label Ca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ca. Show all posts

Oct 24, 2017

Still Life: Remembering Watercolor Artist Zena Arnim Rowley

Happy Birthday to Aunt Zena.

Thank you for giving us your beautiful paintings to grace our walls.




Zena Arnim Rowley was born in Schulenburg, Texas on October 24 1885.






Her father passed away when she was still a young girl.




Her father was Feodor Charles Arnim.



A few years later she moved with her sister, Bessie Ida Arnim Varley, and two brothers to Orange, California.

Her mother moved the family out to California to be with her brother Uncle Thee, Theodore Beall Laidley.

They lived at 221 South Glassell/








Her house has been restored and it is recognized by the Old Towne Orange Preservation Association.

They all would be so happy to see how their house looks today.


Aunt Zena married Joseph Rowley.

She loved to play bridge and paint watercolors.
















Bessie Arnim Varley, Helen Virginia Arnim, Zena Arnim Rowley




Rest In Peace, Aunt Zena and thank you for loving us.







Sep 21, 2017

Helen Virginia Laidley Arnim: A Texas Celebration--Sept 11 1863









Grandma visited her mother, brother and sister and brother in law on Mother's Day--We really had a good time.



Helen Virginia Laidley Arnim,

Old Towne Orange

Orange Historical Society

Vintage Orange

Orange, Ca

221 So Glassell St Orange Ca


Remembering Helen Virginia Laidley Arnim.

Helen Virginia Laidley

B:11Sep1863 Oakland, Colorado, Texas

D:26Mar1956 Orange, Orange, California, USA


Happy Birthday to my very beautiful Great Grandmother Helen Laidley Arnim.


Celebrating her life.


After her husband passed away she moved out to Orange, California, from Schulenburg, Texas to live near her brother Theodore Ladidley.


She built her new house at 221 South Glassell St. in Orange in 1904.  


It was brillantly refurbished and now it is one of the historic houses of Orange, California.