Tony and Lorraine

Tony will be 51 in 1979. Tony and Lorraine work hard to keep their big family going. They own an eight room house with a two car garage, a swimming pool and plenty of land. Lorraine goes to work part-time. She gets home about 1:00 p.m., grabs a bite for lunch, and then goes to the greenhouses to transplant geraniums, flowers and vegetables.

Barbara, their fourth child, comes home for a week's vacation from college. She is a junior and is studying to be a nurse. On March 31, Tony, Lorraine, my grandson Mark and myself are going to a wedding in Morristown. Mark is their fifth child; he is a junior in high school. The youngest is Linda, who is a sophomore at the Immaculate Conception High School in Washington Township. Her sister, Judy, graduated from the same high school. The other four children went to Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, N.J. Three have graduated from there already.

Lorraine is very good to me. She takes me food shopping every Thursday. She carries all the bags into the house for me, because I have a weak back. If I need only a few items she will buy them for me. Lorraine also takes me to get my hair done every Friday. We go to my son-in-law's salon which is called Mario's Hair Styling. He gets my hair done for free; I just give the stylist a tip. Lorraine gets her hair done there also. I also get three permanents a year, all free.

I go to the Saturday five o'clock mass with my son Tony and Lorraine. On the way back home they take me to dinner or we have dinner at their home. Sometimes we go to mass on Sunday morning. Afterwards we go to breakfast together. All my children and in-laws are kind to me. They do whatever they can.

In the winter my son Tony keeps the roads around the house plowed. He even shovels the snow off the walks to the door. In the summer he is so busy with his lawn maintenance business, he doesn't have much time to do anything around my place. I pay one of my grandsons to cut my lawn. It is a very big lawn.