This post is more of a historic side of my family. Before I forget everything, I wanted to write it down.

  • Grammy – The English/Irish/Scotch side
    • Grammy was raised in Point of Pines, MA, near a gorgeous Beach
      • Her mother passed away at an early age.
      • Father eventually remarried to a witch of a woman
    • Moved in front of Sluice Pond, MA
      • Brother, Charles, took care of my Grammy. They had a close relationship.
        • Each week, her brother and her would get $.25, which allowed for $.05 train, $.05 popcorn, $.05 the movie. The witch gave them a quarter to make them away. 
        • Grammy followed her brother everywhere. He often took care of my grammy.
        • At Sluice Pond, they’d cut the ice from the pond to ship to businesses when it froze over. My grammy would get ice shavings from these ice blocks.
          • Then the ice was transported on a horse carriage down the street
      • Charles went to Navy when Grammy was 13
      • Grammy left alone… finished school
      • Turned her education into a career of nursing
  • Grandpa – Hungarian Side
    • Grandpa was raised in Revere, MA with five brothers and two sisters
      • Father was not part of the picture from an early age
    • Went to WWII as a Pilot in the Army Air Corps
    • Owned a roofing and sheet metal business with his brothers to help pay for their mother to have a nice house
    • Introduced to my Grammy from another nurse Janet. Janet had to decide between my grandpa and another brother. She chose the other brother, and then introduced my grandpa and grandma.
    • My grandparents then got married
  • Grandparents
    • Grandpa realized doctors made good money. So he stepped away from his business to become a doctor.
      • Enrolled in Tufts University
      • Graduated from San Diego State (Mom was born around this time)
      • Then went to USC to get doctorate
        • While studying, he developed tuberculosis, and had to take six months off.
      • Got residency in Long Beach working at the VA
      • Moved to Rochester, Minnesota to work for his specialty at the Mayo Clinic
        • Grandpa at one time froze the backyard by flooding the yard with a hose and letting it freeze over, so my mom and her sister could ice skate.
        • My mom and my Grandpa’s mom, Sophie, had a close relationship. She was 100% Hungarian, and my mom used to have a Hungarian accent (despite not knowing any Hungarian)
      • Moved back to Long Beach as Chief of Non-Tuberculous Pulmonary Disease
      • Transferred to Reno, to work at Veterans Hospital as Chief of Medicine.
        • He also was a clinical instructor at UCLA, Utah, and Nevada.
      • Moved to Iron Mountain in 1977 and became Chief of Staff where he worked until he retired.
      • He passed away in 2007.