Tony and Tony

After we sold the place, we gave Tony $10,000 and John $8,050, because he had stopped working for his father a few years earlier than Tony. We gave the three girls about $1,500 each. We had a key man insurance on Tony and John. We paid the premiums. When we sold our business we could trade them in and get a little over $3,000 each. We decided to give them to our sons. They used the dividends to continue the insurance. We have been very generous to our children and they love us for it.

We wanted Tony to go to an advanced school of accounting in Hackensack. When we told Tony, his answer was, “I could never stay closed in an office all day. It would kill me. I love the out-of-doors, like my father does.”

Tony bought a new truck and went into the landscaping business. He also helped his father with the smaller greenhouse business. The two small greenhouses were supposed to be a hobby for my husband, but in time it grew to be bigger than a hobby. He also planted a nursery. We had a very large garden, with tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, carrots, lettuce, swiss chard and many other kinds of vegetables and small flower plants.

After supper we would go in the garden and pick tomatoes and other vegetables, clean them, put them in baskets and the next day Tony would deliver them to the roadside stands. Hard work was never finished. It gave us extra money.