Rudolph Gross

Rudolph Gross and George Gray

Elwood Gross riding a tricycle watched over by his cousin Rudolph Gross

Top left Rudolph Gross (far left) and Harry Braxton, Jr far right between them are the boarder in the home of George Gross on Cloud Avenue and the boarder in the home of Elwood Gross on Pierce Avenue. "Mr. Ed" boarded with the Gross family on Pierce Avenue. Maxine Gross remembers him as a young married man with small children who stayed with the family during the week while attending school at the University of Maryland. He went home to his family on the weekends. This was a common story in Lakeland at the time. Many Black students were older, male and boarded with families in Lakeland. Other images include vacation photo from a trip to Vermont and graduation photo for the brother of Wilmer Gross, James Richard Sydnor