Photos from the Journey

Mary and the Four

Early 1960s · Oklahoma

Mary Majors with children, early 1960s Oklahoma

Mary with her children — Cheryl, Robert (Bob), Billy, and Mitchell. The family she held together through everything that followed.

The book describes her as a mother who refused to give up. These family portraits, taken across the years, are the quiet evidence of that resolve — four children dressed and present, again and again, because she made it so.