This is my great grandfather, Henry Hoyt Fackler, standing in front of the Chevrolet he won from the American Legion in Colony, Kansas in about 1931. Imagine winning a car during the Great Depression and how exciting that must have been. What did he do to win it? Did he catch the biggest fish? Win a prize for best painting? Enter a raffle? Unfortunately, I don't know. He does not look nearly as excited in this picture as he should though.
Here he is again in about 1938.
Henry Hoyt Fackler was born in Pennsylvania in 1878, but moved to Kansas at some point before he married Etta Mildred Day in 1899. I don't know much about him except that he had a store and that he and Etta had five children. Henry died in 1946.
Here's an earlier photo (circa 1900) of Henry Hoyt and Etta.
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