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Here are some more of my favorite vintage Maybelline family pictures from Christmas past.

Merry Christmas from Sharrie Williams

Sharrie and Donna Williams, 1949

Sharrie and Donna, 1952,

Tom Lyle with Billee Williams, Christmas, 1959.

Donna, Sharrie and Billee Williams, 1959.

Bill Williams with Tom Lyle Williams, 1959.

Tom Lyle and Bill Williams, with Billee in the background, 1959

Tom Lyle with googley eye glasses, 1959.

Preston Williams, 1960

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1959,1960, 1965, 1967, in Culver City California

Unk Ile, 1966

Unk Ile with my father, Bill Williams, and my little sister my Billee, in the background, Christmas 1959

Unk Ile, Tom Lyle Williams (fonder of the Maybelline Company,)

with googly glasses and cap

My sister Donna, Billee and me in the Surrey.

My mother, Pauline was pregnant that Christmas and after three girls we were thrilled to have Baby Preston join our family the next Christmas in 1960.

William Preston Williams lll made our family complete and was the best gift of all on Christmas 1960.

Sharrie, Donna, Billee and Baby Preston

We moved into our home on Lenawee in Culver City in 1956, the year it was built and uncle Lyle spent every Christmas with us here, through 1967, the year he sold the Maybelline Company.

We moved to Newport Beach in 1969 and sold the house on Lenawee in 1971. Today, 56 years later it's still the cutest house on the block and carries all the special memories of Christmas our childhood and the happiest years of our lives.

left to right, Sharrie, Bill, Tom Lyle, Billee, Pauline, Donna and Nana, Evelyn Williams and our little poodle, Pepsi.

Unk Ile's last Christmas with us in 1967. He had just sold the Maybelline Company to Plough Inc. and our lives were about to change forever.

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I will never forget those wonderful days when we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas was still so alive in our hearts.

Maybelline's Founder, Tom Lyle Williams - Christmas 1959.

My father Bill Williams with his uncle Tom Lyle Williams Christmas 1959

I remember soaking up the aroma of those red leather upholstered seats, as uncle Lyle stepped out of his brand new white convertible Cadillac that Christmas.

My dad remarked that the deep red was symbolic of Maybelline's trademark color and called the car triple white, with red interior and extra big whitewall tires.

Uncle Lyle, gathered up the gifts given to him from movie stars, magazine editors, studio executives and advertising tycoons and said he didn't need it all... and would rather see us enjoy the fancy dried fruit from Italy, the Belgium cookies, German chocolates and French pastille candy drops.

Seeing such delights once a year was a thrill,

but not nearly as exciting as when he handed us kids

our Christmas envelopes filled with a crisp $10.00 bill.

It doesn't seem like much now, but in today's market

it would be more like $100.00.

After dinner I sang Bali High from South Pacific and

danced the hula...in costume,

while my ten year old sister Donna, waited to

make her entrance as Marilyn Monroe.
I'll never forget her wearing
a pink wig, false eyelashes and holding a
long cigarette holder while dancing to
Bobby Darin's, Mack The Knife.

It was all very entertaining, as you can well imagine,

but nothing was more memorable than watching uncle

Lyle's face, as he marveled at my adorable little 4 year

old sister Billee, dancing to Rudolph the
Red Nosed Raindeer.

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Vintage 1952 Maybelline Company Christmas Card from owner, Tom Lyle Williams

Merry Christmas to all my friends around the World.

Tom Lyle Williams was Unk Ile to the family and never failed to remember every single one of his siblings, their children and their children's children on Christmas. My sisters, brother and I, and all our cousins couldn't wait for our shiny $10.00 bill inside a money-card, that said Merry Christmas, Lots of love from Unk Ile.

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