Jeana, the Jazz Singer

Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Eugenia Howard Hun
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Eugenia Howard Hunt

Jeana wrote this in a journal 12/8/1973:

Sperry and Spring had a party at their Sausalito house and Barbara [Dupuis Hunt Hames] and Ted [Hames] were there – Here I am at this accelerated age [63]. Sperry sang with his guitar and I chimed in which never before was true – and sang “Down in Old Joe’s Barroom” [St. James Infirmary Blues] and dear Sperry made it all come out so I sounded like a jazz pro – How? Christopher seems not well – He was sweet past the cookies – but seemed at 2 years and 11 and one half months to bear with us. We all had such a gorgeous time – Her food was delicious. Sperry did the salad. Our daughter-in-laws are a perfect foil for one another. Spring with her black hair and liquid, large brown eyes – and Barbara pert, Irish and flame red hair. December cold is creeping in, damp and foggy – the California roses seem never to wilt. We leave Sunday for Texas.

Spring and Sperry early ’70s
Barbara and her kids Philo and Marybelle in the ’60s