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Welcome, Family and Friends

Welcome to our new Plumer family website. While our last name may not be Plumer, I suspect and hope that you share the deep connection to that name that I feel. This is my way of perpetuating that and sharing it among all of us. I give you this site in the spirit of connection and discovery of the wonderful people who came before us, people who some of us are fortunate to remember, as well as to remember and laugh as we see “the way we were.” Continue reading “Welcome, Family and Friends”

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In Philly, We Really Can Go Home

Every year I head north to to be with my Canadian family for the holidays. On this trip I rushed to make the trip a few days early so that I could be in Philadelphia in time to be with our family in mourning the passing of Bud Plumer. I had with me the boxes of old Plumer family photos that I have begun posting here. Several of them were pictures of the Plumer Building at 20th and Green and of my dad Sid Adler, and grandfather, Pop Plumer, in Lew’s Market, their store there. Continue reading “In Philly, We Really Can Go Home”

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Alvin H. (Bud) Plumer

Buddy
Bud Plumer-  September 10, 1925-December 9, 2014

Buddy has been the glue that held all the distant branches of our family together for many years.

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The Game Plan – Your Family Photos

I’ll be going to Canada for the winter and won’t be bringing the boxes of photos along. But there are ways you can add to the project. Continue reading “The Game Plan – Your Family Photos”