Grandma and Grandpa Meet and Begin a Courtship

Hi everyone. When we saw Rosemarie (Warino Smith) last weekend she asked my Mom to write how Grandma and Grandma met. This is how she, Aunt Rose, remembers being told: Grandma was a widow staying with her cousin, Mary Cannatti, to help her with her children. Mr. Marino, a compare, died and Grandma and Mrs. Cannatti went to the wake. Grandpa, a widower with a five year old daughter (John Mashika's mother, Philomena), was living with his sister-in law, Mrs. Modarelli and they also went to Mr. Marino's wake. When Grandpa saw Grandma, he asked a friend if he knew who Grandma was. He also said (if you can imagine) "She's got a nica a_ _ " (tush.) (Somehow it just does not seem right for me to talk about Gram that way.) Anyway, he wanted to meet her and the friend took him to Mrs. Cannatti's to visit and they started their courtship. They married some time later (My Mom does not know how long the courtship lasted.) They lived on Albert Street where they raised Grandpa's daugher and where six of the seven Warino children were born. They moved to Truesdale when Uncle Joe was two years old. The neighbors, Mrs. Mills and her daughter Rachel, and the Decastris family, were a little out of sorts when they found out a family with six children was moving in. (Both were great neighbors though.) Aunt Phyl was born some years later and the Truesdale saga continued...