Mom

Geraldine Louise.



I love her middle name, Louise. I would enjoy when my Dad would teasingly call her Louise. Mom and Dad were married on Sept 9. She told me that she wore her sister Jeanette's wedding dress. They were married in the pastoral home of St. Rita's Church in West Allis as my Dad was Lutheran and she was Catholic. When Mom was old enough to work, she quit school and went to work at AT &T, or whatever it was called back then. She was a telephone operator, back in the days you pulled wires to connect phone calls! She grew up in the Depression. Her parents had 5 kids and very little money. We were a family of 7, Mom, Dad, two boys and three girls. Here is a photo of mom and Missy up at the trailer home on Rost Lake. It sure wasn't much to look at, but we had a lot of fun up there and it was some part of my Dad's dream of having a place up north.
Mom and Aunt Marge at a family Christmas party.





This is one of the last nice photos of my mom and dad. It was taken in Hawaii December, 1987. There was a set of drawers in mom's kitchen that the kids knew everything in the 3rd drawer was for them to play with. There was a set of animals in there that Al just loved. When they weren't playing in the drawers, Mom "locked" the drawers with a yard stick that run through all the handles! And of course one with Missy and Al and my mom.

This photo is of Mom and Dave on his wedding day. Dad had died 6 months previous.



Happy Easter. We all loved to play rummy 500.

Lucky for mom, she found Jerry!