When we got married I was making $57.50 a week. But in those days we were able to pay the rent, do meat shopping at a butcher shop, purchase the rest of the groceries . . . and still had some change left over.

I can go on and on but to sum it up: I was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Belleville. Graduated High School and went into the Air Force. After the Service I visited the First Baptist Church in Bloomfield on June 19, 1955. That same night my future wife was also visiting the same church and a mutual friend introduced us. I got married a year and a half later. We lived in Newark for a short time, and then moved to Kearny. My three children were born in Newark and raised in Kearny. While living in Kearny, I was a foster father to 24 children.

Through the years, I have been active in three churches, Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church of Newark, Kearny Evangelical Free Church, and now the Ocean County Evangelical Free Church in Lakehurst. I have also been active in the Hudson Camp and currently Ocean County South Camp of the Gideons International.

Retired from the Post Office after 31 years and moved to the retirement community of Holiday City, Toms River.

I have made it to: grandpa and great grandpa.