Today my mom’s mom would have been 100 years old. She was born in Milwaukee of parents who hadn’t yet been married five years. Her dad, my great grandpa, arrived from Austria-Hungary in 1902 (there was no Poland at that point) and by early 1909, was naturalized a U.S. citizen along with one child born [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mom’
Happy 100 grandma!
Posted in genealogy, tagged birthday, genealogy, grandma, mom on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Momisms…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged memories, mom, mothers day, wisdom on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been sitting here trying to scrounge up some memories of mom on Mother’s Day, and to my disappointment, I’m not coming up with as many as I thought. Note to self – sit down and come up with more! Mom’s been gone more than 17 years now and I am forgetting a lot of [...]
Happy 50th Anniversary, Mom & Dad (Too bad you aren’t here to celebrate)
Posted in genealogy, tagged 50th anniversary, marriage, mom, pop on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Patrick Farrell Patrick about 1944 (at around 20 years old.) John said he is at Manhattan, Kansas in flight training.Today’s photos will be of Patrick and John Farrell’s military photos. From John and Annette Farrell’s collection. These are the boys of Leo and Mary (Gerber) Farrell. Pam added: I’ve never seen this one before. I [...]
Obsolescence…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged death, encyclopedia, mom, pop, typewriter on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finishing the final cleaning of my dad’s stuff (a “few” years late) has really brought home how his life stuff doesn’t fit the 21st century (sometimes it had some trouble in the 20th!) Pop was known for being old fashioned, not enjoying the library computer that his coworkers tried to get him to learn. But stuff that 20 [...]
Happy Birthday mom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birthday, mom on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mom would have been 73 today. The last birthday she was able celebrate was 56, 17 years ago. I wonder what she would have been like at 73. It’s possible she may not have made it out of her 60s if she’d even gotten there. I’ve been missing her more lately. Rightly or wrongly, my [...]
