The granddaughter of Doris Jean (Hood) Loreth (1929 - 1998) shared this photo, calling her the "best Grandmother God could ever give me."
Doris was born in Canada, moved to Louisiana and then Missouri, married, and had three children. When she passed away in 1998, she left behind ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
This is why the AncientFaces community exists - to provide her great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren an opportunity to know who their great-grandmother really was. We'll always remember Doris on AncientFaces.
Doris Jean (Hood) Loreth was born to Robert Hood and Mary Jane Bennett in Fort William, Canada. She had siblings Mary Elizabeth "Betty" and Ruth Lorraine Hood.
Doris Hood married Oscar "Ozzie" Ralph Loreth, born 1926 in Canada) and they had three children: Gordon Albert Loreth (1955 - 1992), Timothy Loreth, and Ruth Loreth.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...