Notes

Charles
I do remember staying at your (Carl and Barbara (Heilman) Gross) farm when I was visiting as a child. I can, also, remember your mother making choke cherry jelly in the back yard one summer when Robert and Jerome took me over to the house in the old Model A Ford that they drove around town until we were stopped by a state trooper and Uncle Tony put an end to it (I actually drove that car and I was only 13).

I don't remember whether it was at your house or the Miller's where we had only a kerosine lantern in the bedroom. I think that was the summer that Uncle Tony built an addition onto his house and let me help a little with some of the simple work. I, also, remember swimming in a pond near town that had a lot of leeches in the mud-I had to remove about five.

I don't remember exactlly the reason my mom went to Minneapolis but she wanted to ger away from her stepmother (the first one) and told me that the stepmother really wanted all of the children to leave the house. Mom went with Aunt Monica and they joined a convent, I don't remember the order. Mom said that since she and Monica only had attended up to the sixth grade, they would always be the nuns that did all of the work--cleaning, cooking and washing clothes. They soon tired of that and one of the nuns helped Mom get a job working in the home of a Jewish doctor. She was not too fond of the woman and finally left for a job at the new VA Hospital. She met my dad there and they were married. My dad had the opportunity for a promotion if he transferred to the VA hospital in Huntington, WV and they moved there. I was born in Huntington in 1934. Charles

Note: Charles has a PHd in Immunology. He worked in medical research and retired early due to health issues.
Bob Gross

November 14, 2020: Charles's son, Jason, lives in the house where his Dad, Charles, lived at 2000 Steven St., Mandeville, LA 70448.