My Father

My father loved his grandchildren very much, and they loved him. My sister Cora, her husband and baby lived with him. She lived on the second floor. She lived there until my brother Tony got married. Tony and his bride Minnie then lived on the second floor. After a few years Tony's wife got sick, so they moved out. My brother Nick was married to Molly by now, so they moved in. Molly was very good to my father. She cleaned his apartment, cooked for him and washed his clothes. My brother Nick would shave him and cut his hair.

I would take my father to stay with me one week at a time so they could paint his apartment or if he wasn't too well. When we moved to Closter we had my father for a week. I put a single bed in a small room near the kitchen. He loved to sit near the kitchen window and look out at the beautiful lawn and tennis court. My father would say to me that it was nice that my husband's boss allowed him to stay here. Poor Pop, we couldn't make him understand that we owned the place. I guess he just couldn't believe that we saved enough money to buy this big place. My father lived until he was 89 years old. He was a widower for almost 30 years.