Wood St., Sisters

No I do not have a picture of all of us.

I must tell you the story about your mom....maybe you know it......
Here goes:

My father moved us from 107 Tell Street in Providence when I was about 9 years old.

He bought a home on 14 Wood street, Providence, R. I.......
It once belonged to a Doctor but if you had seen the condition it was in you would not want to live there.....
There must have been 6 junked automobiles in the back yard....It was a three family house.......the front stairway was just so beautiful and the possiblilites were endless.
We did not have money and it took a long time to fix the house up plus it was huge.

Uncle Joe was married and uncle Louie was in the service.....

Anna and Etta did not want to live there so they moved out and rented an apartment by themselves on Pearl Street in Providence.....we saw little of them....they of course worked and no car so it was trollies or buses or walking.....

Grandpa never did learn to drive and never owned an automobile.....

Well Aunt Dora, Aunt Julia and grandpa worked and of course I was in school.

I would have to come home and make a lunch and be sure to lock up and go back to school.....I was the type of child who was very shy and never got into any real problems in school......
I bunked once in my later years and got caught the first time I did. never again!!

Aunt Anna met Emil and your mom met Tate and they got married....Annie moved to San Francisco and of course your mom and dad moved to West Virginia.

Yes Anna and Etta were very close...they loved to dance and did so every chance they could and I would guess that is where they met their husbands.

The next time I saw Annie was when Brother Joe drove us to see her as I mentioned in my other e mail...I would say I was abou 16 years old then. I saw her when she came to grandpa's funeral, I was 19.....

Grandpa always agonized about them moving out......guess he never got over that.
In those days girls just did not do that......he did forgive them....

As for pictures I don't even think we had a camera...so I don't have many pictures at all.
when we were young......

I will send you one of Me and Uncle Tony when we got married. send me your address.


Eventually the house got fixed up, uncle Louie came home from the service....the cars were removed from the back yard and grandpa loved flowers, it looked like a park.
He also had what we called in those days a Victory Garden.....

.When he died Julie and I moved on second floor where your mom lived for a while......Aunt Dora had gotten married the year after grandpa died....the first floor was to big for us so we moved upstairs and lived together 8 years.....then I got married and moved next door to Julie and lived there 3 years, we then bought a home and just about got the mortgage, julie
me and Tony lived in our home together 32 years...of course Scott was born 9 years after we were married......

We got along so well, never argued, julie loved to cook, I did most of the cleaning and baking.

Tony went into business and the only year he did good he came down with Rhuematoid Arthritis, he was a progressive toolmaker and could not work anymore.....he has not worked since he was 58 years old...he is now 78.......we lived on his old age pension which was not much but Julie helped us so much....did all the shopping.....she was such a hard worker and I will never ever forget her....I miss her more each day.
She was more than a sister, a friend, confidante everything rolled into one......She lived her life only for us...she was so beautiful......

If not for Aunt Julia I don't know where we would be now......We had to sell our home to pay off all the bills incurred from opening the shop....I had worked for Tony 7 years (NO PAY) we only made enough to pay the bills.....and very little to take home.....which makes it so I make very little Pension......no private pensions......either....for either of us.

Although our brother was a millonaire WE NEVER GOT HELP FROM HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's ok we made it without him......guess his children are enjoying the fruits of his labor......

I was a hairdresser but Julie was sick so many times we lost a lot of customers, she had cancer on her leg and could not work, her breast had to be operated on for a cyst that almost burst, it was as big as a grapefruit...luckily she was ok but was out of work a lot....I worked for her so many years and there again, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THIS BUT IT IS TRUE, I never took home more than $50.00 a week.....

Guess I was put here to just work for my family.......

She was in the hospital for 8 weeks with severe Sciatica, I could not even visit her because I came home after 10 days after having Scott.....I came home Wednesday and she went in Thursday for 8 weeks.....no one to take the baby so I could visit....
At that Time I had Tony Sick for 10 years....severe depression......

I had to go to work two days after I came home, hired an elderly woman to take care of Scott for two weeks, she was a retired nurse and lived with us......I could not afford to have her more than two weeks so I hired a hairdresser.....she was stealing all the money, left a little for the shop and took what she could.......Well It has been a rough
road but it is all behind us now.......I try not to think of those times too much as I start crying, as I am doing right now......

I guess I could write a book but who would read it??

Our FAITH HAS BROUGHT US THROUGH.....

It is all I had to hang onto.....

Well I will end this novel now.....did not mean to put this all on you but guess you all had your problems too.....
Somehow we get through them....

I have had one of the best husbands in the world, and these are his words to me,
I quote:

EV NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL ME THIS MARRIAGE WAS NOT MADE IN HEAVEN.

my answer to him was, AND I QUOTE:

TONY IF I WERE A MAN I WOULD TREAT A WOMAN JUST LIKE YOU TREAT ME.


I am a very lucky woman......

Take care,
stay well

Love Aunt Evelyn