MANASTERSKA, Iola E.

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Met Carol through Newman Kelley, who lived with Gramma and Grampa French. Grampa called her and asked "What are you doing tonight? Do you have a date?" She said, "Yes, I do". He replied (In typical Charlie French style!) "Well G..Damn it break it! I'll be there at 5 PM. I want you to go out with my son Carol." (who was home on leave from England from the US ARMY). They went square dancing with Auntie May/Uncle Buddy (married) and Norma/John Caranci in Centredale. Iola was 22 at the time .

He "proposed" the next day by saying "You're the kind of girl I'd like to marry." She wasn't impressed and told her mother how crazy he was to say such a thing. He wrote letters to her from Maryland where he was stationed, though she didn't write many back. He returned to Providence and tried to pick her up at City Hall, where she worked, and she left by the rear entrance because she didn't want to go out with him. "He was a persistent little bastard." she told DMC!

Her mother insisted that she marry him though because she was getting older and said that "people are talking". They married and lived with her parents afterward. Moved into Grampa French's Vandewater St. house when Gramma/Grampa moved to Lakeville, CT (June 1958).

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Iola married FRENCH, Carol Westford on 6 Jul 1957 in Providence, RI. Carol (son of FRENCH, Charles Kimball Worcester and SMITH, Frances Alma) was born on 14 Nov 1926 in Columbia, ME; died on 20 Apr 1996 in Providence, RI; was buried on 22 Apr 1996 in Pawtucket, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]