Horace and his mom, Ada

I've always thought this was Horace's graduation, but as I'm uploading these and really thinking about what's what, I'm not as confident this was his graduation. I mean, he might be 18 in this photograph. I just don\u2019t know.

Our dad was adopted by Ada Pratt. He was fathered by her hubby. Sadly, I don't know shit about him, not even his name.

If this is Horace's graduation, it is 1926, even though he was born in 1906. He graduated, summer 1926, from Los Angeles High School.

I'll mention at this juncture that our Nanny, what we called our grandmother, saw Paramahansa Yogananda speak live at least one time on one of his many lecture tours. That's interesting because our folks used to eat regularly at a restaurant in Hollywood that was owned and operated by Self-Realization Fellowship, the church Yogananda later founded. But even more quirky is the fact that SRF is the only religious organization I was ever associated with. I only learned about our folks and Nanny after I told my folks of my foray into religion. Kinda interesting, I think.

While I'm a serious atheist, there is a weird thing about Yogananda's death. He died in Los Angeles in 1952. That's not the weird part. Harry T. Rowe, Los Angeles Mortuary Director of the Forest Laawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA, where Yogananda's body was received, embalmed and interred, wrote in a notarized letter, "The absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramahansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience... No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death... No indication of mold was visible on his skin, and no visible drying up took place in the bodily tissues. This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one... No odour of decay emanated from his body at any time..." I certainly can't explain it

FWIW, our mom, Ida, graduated from Belmont High School, also in Los Angeles. She would have graduated in 1928.