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Rena (Pappas) Blentson

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Title

Rena (Pappas) Blentson

Subject

Blentson, Rena Pappas (1900-1973)

Description

Portrait photograph of Rena (Pappas) Blentson.

Rena (Pappas) Blentson was a native of Greece who immigrated to the United States and then married another Greek immigrant, Pete Blentson, in 1931.

Her husband was a co-owner and operator of the New York Restaurant in Woodstock for many years.

She had two children, Angelo (born 1931) and Helen (born January 1933).

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Woodstock 1934-1936".

Contributor

Identified in 2025 by library staff based on other images of her in the Morrison Studio Collection.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Rena (Pappas) Blentson appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001419, 022186, 022213, 022214, 023885, 024872, 024083, 024155, 024972, 024976, 024082, and 040256.

Identifier

024155

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Rena (Pappas) Blentson,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/53787.

Comments

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