*Veteran of WWI
My great Uncle Al, was a dear man, a devoted son and a devout Catholic. He was my grandma's youngest brother and lived just across the courtyard from us with my great grandmother, in Los Angeles, CA. I don't know when he moved from PA to CA, I just remember him always being there. He had a cute way of expressing himself. One thing he used to say to express surprise was "hokie spoons". I use it all the time and when I do, I think of him. One time he saw my sister and I dressed alike,(we were about 2 & 3 yrs. old)and he told my grandma that we were as "cute as Christmas" (I guess you can't get cuter than Christmas).
Uncle Al drove a green Model A Ford. My sis and I use to go to Mass with him and his wife and we got to ride in the rumble seat...what fun. Uncle Al was almost totally deaf and wore a hearing aid. When he got off work in the evening, before driving home, he would turn off his aid. One day he asked my Uncle Hal, who was a machanic, to take a look at his car..."It's making a lot of noise". It was determined that the Model A sounded like it always did...he had forgotten to turn his hearing aid off.
He married late in life (probably in his 50"s). After my great grandma passed away, his "longtime sweetheart" Ann Lehman came to California and they were married. I loved Uncle Al and Aunt Ann. They were fun and sweet, and didn't seem to mind 2 little girls running across the courtyard to visit them. Years later, after I was a woman they moved back to Pennslvania. I never saw them again, but I have nothing but tender and loving thoughts of them. I now live in Pennsylvania and have only recently found their graves.
He left behind his widow, Anna and countless nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his sisters, Ida Hogue, Emma Melhorn(my grandma), Stella (who died in infancy) and bothers Benjamin and one other who died in infancy.
My great Uncle Al, was a dear man, a devoted son and a devout Catholic. He was my grandma's youngest brother and lived just across the courtyard from us with my great grandmother, in Los Angeles, CA. I don't know when he moved from PA to CA, I just remember him always being there. He had a cute way of expressing himself. One thing he used to say to express surprise was "hokie spoons". I use it all the time and when I do, I think of him. One time he saw my sister and I dressed alike,(we were about 2 & 3 yrs. old)and he told my grandma that we were as "cute as Christmas" (I guess you can't get cuter than Christmas).
Uncle Al drove a green Model A Ford. My sis and I use to go to Mass with him and his wife and we got to ride in the rumble seat...what fun. Uncle Al was almost totally deaf and wore a hearing aid. When he got off work in the evening, before driving home, he would turn off his aid. One day he asked my Uncle Hal, who was a machanic, to take a look at his car..."It's making a lot of noise". It was determined that the Model A sounded like it always did...he had forgotten to turn his hearing aid off.
He married late in life (probably in his 50"s). After my great grandma passed away, his "longtime sweetheart" Ann Lehman came to California and they were married. I loved Uncle Al and Aunt Ann. They were fun and sweet, and didn't seem to mind 2 little girls running across the courtyard to visit them. Years later, after I was a woman they moved back to Pennslvania. I never saw them again, but I have nothing but tender and loving thoughts of them. I now live in Pennsylvania and have only recently found their graves.
He left behind his widow, Anna and countless nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his sisters, Ida Hogue, Emma Melhorn(my grandma), Stella (who died in infancy) and bothers Benjamin and one other who died in infancy.
*Veteran of WWI
My great Uncle Al, was a dear man, a devoted son and a devout Catholic. He was my grandma's youngest brother and lived just across the courtyard from us with my great grandmother, in Los Angeles, CA. I don't know when he moved from PA to CA, I just remember him always being there. He had a cute way of expressing himself. One thing he used to say to express surprise was "hokie spoons". I use it all the time and when I do, I think of him. One time he saw my sister and I dressed alike,(we were about 2 & 3 yrs. old)and he told my grandma that we were as "cute as Christmas" (I guess you can't get cuter than Christmas).
Uncle Al drove a green Model A Ford. My sis and I use to go to Mass with him and his wife and we got to ride in the rumble seat...what fun. Uncle Al was almost totally deaf and wore a hearing aid. When he got off work in the evening, before driving home, he would turn off his aid. One day he asked my Uncle Hal, who was a machanic, to take a look at his car..."It's making a lot of noise". It was determined that the Model A sounded like it always did...he had forgotten to turn his hearing aid off.
He married late in life (probably in his 50"s). After my great grandma passed away, his "longtime sweetheart" Ann Lehman came to California and they were married. I loved Uncle Al and Aunt Ann. They were fun and sweet, and didn't seem to mind 2 little girls running across the courtyard to visit them. Years later, after I was a woman they moved back to Pennslvania. I never saw them again, but I have nothing but tender and loving thoughts of them. I now live in Pennsylvania and have only recently found their graves.
He left behind his widow, Anna and countless nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his sisters, Ida Hogue, Emma Melhorn(my grandma), Stella (who died in infancy) and bothers Benjamin and one other who died in infancy.
My great Uncle Al, was a dear man, a devoted son and a devout Catholic. He was my grandma's youngest brother and lived just across the courtyard from us with my great grandmother, in Los Angeles, CA. I don't know when he moved from PA to CA, I just remember him always being there. He had a cute way of expressing himself. One thing he used to say to express surprise was "hokie spoons". I use it all the time and when I do, I think of him. One time he saw my sister and I dressed alike,(we were about 2 & 3 yrs. old)and he told my grandma that we were as "cute as Christmas" (I guess you can't get cuter than Christmas).
Uncle Al drove a green Model A Ford. My sis and I use to go to Mass with him and his wife and we got to ride in the rumble seat...what fun. Uncle Al was almost totally deaf and wore a hearing aid. When he got off work in the evening, before driving home, he would turn off his aid. One day he asked my Uncle Hal, who was a machanic, to take a look at his car..."It's making a lot of noise". It was determined that the Model A sounded like it always did...he had forgotten to turn his hearing aid off.
He married late in life (probably in his 50"s). After my great grandma passed away, his "longtime sweetheart" Ann Lehman came to California and they were married. I loved Uncle Al and Aunt Ann. They were fun and sweet, and didn't seem to mind 2 little girls running across the courtyard to visit them. Years later, after I was a woman they moved back to Pennslvania. I never saw them again, but I have nothing but tender and loving thoughts of them. I now live in Pennsylvania and have only recently found their graves.
He left behind his widow, Anna and countless nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his sisters, Ida Hogue, Emma Melhorn(my grandma), Stella (who died in infancy) and bothers Benjamin and one other who died in infancy.
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