23 Skiddoo! (Whatever that means)

The Roaring 20s young lady on the right is  Beatrice Elizabeth "Bea" Hunter Crain (1903-1971).  I heard the reason of Bea's nickname "Bea" is because one of her younger brothers, my father, could not pronounce Beatrice when he was a toddler and the big family adapted.  Bea was the only daughter of nine kids  and the only one born outside of Georgia (Hunt County, Texas).   

Before she married she was a Southern Bell Telephone operator in the days before they had telephone dialing.  Instead of dialing you would tell her who you wanted, and as a small town as Marietta was at the time, probably you could tell her the first name only.  In 1931, Bea married Robert Spencer Crain (1903-1991), who owned several local businesses.  They had five children and took in some of Spencer's orphaned  kin. 

Bea was very generous and opened her house for family wakes, I remember visiting both my Hunter grandparents' bodies (two years apart) in her living room,  and hosting big family get-togethers.