“My Little Sisters Eve Karen and Kathleen… Remembered”

“This is with MOM and the three of us… February 1946 … as our baby sister,  “EVE KAREN  Francisca McClarren” was born on the 16th, and when “MOM and DAD” took our sister to the  “HOLY NAME CHURCH” to be baptized  and  were asked what  is the baby’s  NAME  to be… he was told  – – “EVE KAREN” – – the Priest said … “there is not a   “SAINT EVE KAREN” …  DO you have a DOG?” 

“I  need a  “SAINT’s  NAME.”  So as not to hold up the ceremony…  MOM  remembered that… “Francisca CABRINI”  was in the NEWS…  as just having been canonized a  “SAINT”  … so that is  “HOW”   our little  sister “KAREN” received her  long and full name.

This was an “IRISH PRIEST” and his “IRISH brogue” was so strong…  you could  hardly  understand  what he was saying, as the word “DOG” really sounded like “DOGUE!”

“This  next photo  is  of “KAREN” with DADDY, and of course the three of  us  – DENNY – ME  –  TOMMY –  in the area where the “APPLE”  trees were growing,  and every so often… when the trees were full of good apples…  one of  the kids  would run down and get a handful of  ‘apples’  for  their friends… but…  for some of the kids, there was a problem… they could not eat the green “apples”  they would  immediately get… a good case of the “runs” to the bathroom.”

That “SAILOR” outfit that  “TOMMY”  is wearing… is the same  “outfit” that  “DENNY” wore on his trip to “OHIO” …  when he was  only “four years old”   and I did  write about that trip a couple weeks earlier, and posted the news-paper clipping along   giving all of the particulars of the   long “trip”  that little  “DENNY”  took … all by himself, when “DADDY” had to go to  “CALIFORNIA”  to work on the  “NAVY SHIPS”   during WWII  just some the exciting things that the  “McClarren”  children did during those “hard” times  right here in AMERICA,  and we  have all have  lived …  long enough to tell about it!

“Just some of the  good ole memories of our little sister, EVE KAREN”  just good to have a few  old  PHOTOS,  for a “BACK-up” … otherwise  no one would believe…  half of  the good old days…  when we were  in those bad and hard times of  a  “WAR” and what  “AMERICANS”  that is all  of us did to help  our “COUNTRY”  WIN… but, we  “ALL”   just did what we could  and always felt good in our hearts,  for  just doing our  small part  in UNITY…  which ended up being a great and positive effort … for in the end.. we were BLESS from above …. for whatever small contribution… that we were able to do.!”         D.V


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