Mom is still living, but is 92, has alzheimers, and is now in a nursing home. Dad died in January 1998 of leukemia so the report goes. Dad was a pattern maker for many years, and when Alliance Machine and Alliance structural were in their heyday, he worked on the patterns for some of the world's largest cranes. Today, computers and automated lathes do what he did by hand. We still still have some clocks, lamps, tables, and phone stands made by him.
As kids were were lucky and had toys made by him, from scooters to stilts - the only ones in the neighbor with stilts (remember, when I was a kid, it was almost the dark ages, television was still black and white and cinemascope was just starting to come into being. There were no walk man, no ipods, no computers, and, God forbid, no cell phones. There was even a school dress code. Sex was whispered in the locker rooms, not spoken about commonly.
Aunt Dorothy and Uncle Del are both deceased (right). He died March 18, 2001, and she died on Easter (March 31, 2002) the following year. Uncle was an avid golfer and bowler. So was she. Both were active to within a year of their departures.
Brother Del has not been seen or heard from in 6 years, not since Mom called his wife a Blankin Bitch and her daughter the same thing and banned them from the house. My brother was never one for rejection.
We have been told he died in 2003, but the "witch" (am being polite) will not give details.
The family is down to Mom, Me. Aunt Mae, who was Dad's youngest sister, died last year. Dad's two oldest sisters died the following two years after he did. Aunt Dorothy was mom's sister.
