PopPop was in printing. When he first started out in Philadelphia the printing presses were "quaint." And he kept at the business through all the changes that technology brought to the industries until people were talking about color separations and talking to each other interdepartmentally without using phones...they had primitive emailing by that time.
PopPop kept on working after Nana Beth died in the seventies.
And PopPop remarried to a childhood friend, Dorothy. We couldn't get a new Nana, but we got another grandmother. She said we could call her grandmother, but for some reason we all preferred to call her Dorothy and she liked that just fine. We'd go to New York and Jersey to visit with Dorothy and her sister Pat and their mother Mae. Even after PopPop passed on. We pulled together the way families can.
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| Big Ed and Eddie |
Daddy got out of printing too after PopPop passed. He went into Business Consulting as an advisor to both younger and older people in all kinds of businesses.
His son Eddie went to the same college as his Mom and Dad. Eddie became a Northwood Man. And got married and started his family tree.
And Eddie's brother Michael went into carpentry first and then project design, consultation, and management. Standing outside a huge hotel that Michael helped construct seemed a long way from the birdhouses Michael used to build with Big Ed. Michael, too, started building his family treehouse soon after college.
Dad's youngest son, Stephen, could envision, technically draw, figure all the math, and build to a Tee from conception to finished product. A lightening quick skill with numbers and matching idea to the How To's. After traveling away from home for High School and the start of college, he re-settled near his parents. And graduated in business from Sacred Heart.
