Brianna

Jesse married BATES, Keri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 2

Edward married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Social Security Number: 035-12-2543
• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: 1925, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1930, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1935, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1940, Providence, RI
• Milit-Beg: 1 Feb 1943, Providence, RI

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Buddy, as he was known, was hanging around with Norma and Owen French. Mary French was dating someone else at the time. WWII came along and Buddy went MIA. He came home and had wounds and malaria. Mary got a "dear john " letter from her sweetheart (Ralph DiSimone), they had planned on getting married. Buddy was there to console her. He called her up to go roller skating and said that he and Joe Pino will pick her up (from Winchester Street). So they went roller skating in E. Providence. She made it miserable for him. Left him at the gate to the house. Sometime later he called her and took her to the movies (Saratoga Trunk starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman) at the Majestic in downtown Providence. He called her more and more; they saw more movies; and he visited frequently at the French house. They courted over a year. Her father and mother didn't like his drinking and they told Mary to tell him they couldn't get married if he didn't stop. They sent her to visit her brother Stanley in Norfolk, VA for the summer. If Buddy didn't have a job by the end of the summer there would be no marriage. He got a job at American Screw near R.I. Hospital.

Buddy and Mary purchased the house on Vandewater Street (ca 1952) and his in-laws sold the house on Winchester and moved in to the downstairs apt. (As related to D.M. Caranci by Iola French, his aunt, in 2009)

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"Buddy, as he was known, was hanging around with Norma and Owen French. Mary French was dating someone else at the time. WWII came along and Buddy went MIA. He came home and had wounds and malaria. Mary got a "dear john " letter from her sweetheart (Ralph DiSimone), they had planned on getting married. Buddy was there to console her. He called her up to go roller skating and said that he and Joe Pino will pick her up (from Winchester Street). So they went roller skating in E. Providence. She made it miserable for him. Left him at the gate to the house. Sometime later he called her and took her to the movies (Saratoga Trunk starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman) at the Majestic in downtown Providence. He called her more and more; they saw more movies; and he visited frequently at the French house. They courted over a year. Her father and mother didn't like his drinking and they told Mary to tell him they couldn't get married if he didn't stop. They sent her to visit her brother Stanley in Norfolk, VA for the summer. If Buddy didn't have a job by the end of the summer there would be no marriage. He got a job at American Screw near R.I. Hospital.

Buddy and Mary purchased the house on Vandewater Street (ca 1952) and his in-laws sold the house on Winchester and moved in to the downstairs apt." (As related to D.M. Caranci by Iola French, his aunt, in 2009)
The "house on Winchester" St. was one of a row of duplex houses built for workers at the Wanskuck Woolen Mill across the street. It was purchased by Charles C. K. French after the mill closed.

FindaGrave:
GRID=71994793 sect. 54 #39

Charles married FRENCH, Mary Edith on 20 Sep 1947 in Providence, RI. Mary (daughter of FRENCH, Charles Kimball Worcester and SMITH, Frances Alma) was born on 30 Dec 1927 in Providence, RI; died on 30 Mar 2005 in Providence, RI; was buried in Pawtucket, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: 1930, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1940, Providence, RI

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FindaGrave:
GRID=71994176 section 54, #39