Mom and Dad’s Wedding
Image by Michael 1952
They were nice looking people. On the left Dad, Mom, Aunt Agness and Uncle John Here is a little bit about the people. My father, Joseph is on the left. He was born in 1919 and lived his working life in Chicago’s south side. He was a Chicago fan, meaning that he would watch both White Sox and Cubs games. He worked for over 20 years after WW2 for one company, retired with something that only government workers get now a days, a pension and moved to Michigan. My mother, Violet lived her whole life in Chicago. She told a story about the job she got in World War II when she worked at a defense plant. She worked next to the "inspection station" on an assembly line, her job was to put a into b and then let it go to the inspection station. The inspection station was across the conveyer belt from her where a blind man, with eyes open wide, would inspect the gizmo they were making (she never was told what it was) and above his head was a clock. She said that it was the most boring job she ever had in her whole life. After the war she settled down and became a housewife. Next to my mother is my Aunt Agnes, we called her Aunt Aggie. She was a baker and always made the best cakes and cookies. She was also skilled at making jams and jellies. When I was a boy my father had a peach tree in our back yard. Aggie made a batch of Peach Preserves. I made a terrible mistake, I told her that I liked them. She made me 24 bottles of the stuff, a lifetime supply. Some of it went bad and had to be discarded. She saw them in the trash and got upset. Finally next to Aggie is my father’s brother John. John and Joe were very close their whole life. John worked at a foundry and the person who owned it was a cheapskate and didn’t keep everything up to repair. One day John was working and a steel container that was supposed to be held up with 24 bolts, which was being held up by 12, gave way and my Uncle was hurt, he was in a cast with the heel of one leg attached to the calve of the other to replace lost muscle. He sued the owner of the company who promptly filed for bankruptcy and went out of business.
These were good ordinary people living life as best as they could. All of them are gone now, but their memories live on.
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