Lost pictures find their home after being dropped off at thrift store

By Kyle Schmidt

Family memories have returned home after being turned in to a local thrift store.

The Fab-U-Less store posted on social media looking for the owners of a group of photos that were turned in. It didn’t take long to find where they belonged.

“It’s my belief that they ended up or they started, they went to my aunt’s house. Looks like my aunt Anne Conroy,” Kenny O’Dell said. “And then from there, somehow got here.”

O’Dell is one of the family members in many of the photos. He already had a few of the pictures, but some were new to him.

“It is nice to see some of these,” O’Dell said. “It’s my sisters and my brothers and my folks who are deceased. My siblings could be interested in having some of the pictures.”

Fortunately for O’Dell, it wasn’t too hard to determine who the photos belonged to.

“There’s a couple of these right at the very top of the stacks, say to Ann and Marion Conroy, which are my aunt and uncle,” O’Dell said. “I’m assuming they were given by my mother or by my siblings to an uncle.”

The pictures started with family and got lost in transit, but now have made their way back. Using a picture with a baby in it, O’Dell was able to figure out approximately the time they were taken.

“This one goes back to about 1946 maybe,” O’Dell said, looking at a family member’s baby picture.

Shuffling through the pictures, O’Dell eventually found a few of himself.

“Four or five of myself. One when I was in the service,” O’Dell said. “One when I was just a punk. One when I had hair.”

These were not the only lost pictures dropped off at the thrift store.

Another set of pictures that date back even further were also dropped off. Fab-U-Less hopes to find their owners as well.