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Re: Coytesville Days - the 1950s
Posted By: Bill Mitchell In Response To: Re: Coytesville Days - the 1950s (Marilyn Lynch Reiser)
Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2005, at 12:46 p.m.
>Where did the Gormleys live.
We all lived in my grandfathers house on Whiteman street. They had gone to FLHS, and were maybe a year or two older than you.
>My mom worked with a Sally Gormley.
>That was about 40 yrs. ago.
>She lived on Anderson Ave.No relation. Same as there were other Mitchells in Fort Lee I was not related to.
Yeah, Doc Crandall lived next to Holtje on Center Ave. I remember him loading shotgun shells with phonograph needles and rock salt, or was it that we as kids thought he did that. I don't know which.
How could I ever forget the Music Teacher, Sister Marie Theresa.
As for Tommy Tessaro, or simply TT as I used to call him. He never recognized me after I gained weight and turned grey. Another good friend of mine would have been chief, if he had not died, Billy Peppard. The Chief now is Tom Ripoli, who grew up around the corner from me on Gerome Ave. I can still see Billy Birch's face as I think of his name, yes he was murdered responding to a robbery alarm at the Rivera Motel on Route 4.
If you ever see the book "Fort Lee", I'm one of the unidentified kids on the page with Gus Lesnavitch, Billy's also on that page. There's a lot of Fort Lee kids in that photo. Quinn, Hawkins, others.
Morrissey, I used to serve his masses in the late mornings at the original Madonna Church on Church Lane. As I served an earlier one in Holy Angles, and delivered the Hudson Disgrace in between masses, and the Bergen Evening Record after school. Talk about him scaring the crap out of you, I can remember him screaming about a parishner living in sin not a block away from the Sunday Mass we were at, this was in the Chapel in OLF, he was refering to my father, who married my mother in a civil ceremony. She was divorced and and non catholic. I don't think my dad ever went to church again, while my mother became involved in the PTA, parish affairs, and became a church going catholic after that.
Oh, yeah, Fr. Ponsi in Pal Park married them in the church soon after. baptized me too so I could make First Communion too.
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