Alice, the daughter of Leo and Jadwiga (Harriet) Pinkos was born in Chicago in 1928. She went to school with my Auntie Jean and they were frinds for life. She worked for a while in a radar plant during WWII. After the war she met Robert Martine and was married in 1948. She went to beauty school and for a while had a beauty parlor with My Auntie Lee. I did not know about the beauty parlor for many years and always thought that my grandmother sent her to beauty school to have someone to set her hair. She later opened a grocery store on Western Ave at Lyndale and ran it until I was born. She worked at Continental Bank for 25 years, starting out as a clerk and working up to processor and later trained people on their new computer system. She tried out for security once (it paid well) and was top in the group for target shooting, but in the evaluation they thought she would not shoot anyone. When Continental ran into trouble she actually did wind up in security. But as mom I used to watch her make jelly, she also made clothes, loved gardening, antiquing flea markets,and refishing furniture, collecting flow blue plates. We did yearly driving vacations I think our favorite trip ws Greenfield Village by the Henry Ford Museum.Like dad she had a wicked sense of humor and could really make you laugh. Mom and dad had four children, Roberta, Christine, Deborah and John. We all of us miss her very much.
Alice, the daughter of Leo and Jadwiga (Harriet) Pinkos was born in Chicago in 1928. She went to school with my Auntie Jean and they were frinds for life. She worked for a while in a radar plant during WWII. After the war she met Robert Martine and was married in 1948. She went to beauty school and for a while had a beauty parlor with My Auntie Lee. I did not know about the beauty parlor for many years and always thought that my grandmother sent her to beauty school to have someone to set her hair. She later opened a grocery store on Western Ave at Lyndale and ran it until I was born. She worked at Continental Bank for 25 years, starting out as a clerk and working up to processor and later trained people on their new computer system. She tried out for security once (it paid well) and was top in the group for target shooting, but in the evaluation they thought she would not shoot anyone. When Continental ran into trouble she actually did wind up in security. But as mom I used to watch her make jelly, she also made clothes, loved gardening, antiquing flea markets,and refishing furniture, collecting flow blue plates. We did yearly driving vacations I think our favorite trip ws Greenfield Village by the Henry Ford Museum.Like dad she had a wicked sense of humor and could really make you laugh. Mom and dad had four children, Roberta, Christine, Deborah and John. We all of us miss her very much.
