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Johnnie's
nickname was "Whitey" because of his white
hair. He loved fishing, gardening, cutting wood
in the back yard, raising vegetables. He worked
in factories to help support his mother (his father
died in a mine accident).
He loved to go
blackberry picking and often took Joe Kuzma's children
with him in his jeep.
One funny story is that
Johnnie would take some of his cousins out picking
blackberries on farms in the country. On the way
there they got hungry and he would buy a loaf of bread
and pound of big baloney. They would stop at an
unknown farm and remove a head of cabbage to make the
rest of the cabbage/baloney sandwich (no ketchup or
mustard of course).
The picture below shows
Johnie (right) with his mother Ellen, Al Margetta, Sr.
Ellen Gresock, Br. Sam Gresock, Sr. Adalaide Sargent
at his sister's Mary Helen's funeral in 1974.
The picture below shows
Johnnie in 1943 on Pennsylvania Avenue in Erie, PA.
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