My Wife Mary's Jobs

My wife Mary held many jobs during our lifetime. She worked at Campbells soup, Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, Cut Flower in Curtisville, PA, Kroger stores in Houston, TX. Angelo Fonzi in Hammond, IN. She worked at the swimming pool at our apartment in Hammond.IN. Mary passed out while working at Campbells Soup in Napoleon,OH. She got too hot.

Mary worked in food preparation and patient care at Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, Harmarville, PA.

Mary worked as a meat wrapper at Kroger.  She also had a job as a fast food preparer there.

Mary had a garden at our home in Curtisville, PA. She tilled the garden, and did all the work herself. She took care of the yard, planted flowers, had a pool installed, had a new roof and siding put on the house, and remodeled the inside of the house.

 Mary was a host at Zuider Zee Seafood restaurant in Dallas, TX. Zuider Zee was a large restaurant, which served thousands of meals each day. Dallas Cowboy employees, players, and fans were among it's customers.

I wrote a story about water

 No, I didn't have a car in high school.

I wrote a story about "Water", which I will post.

Water

I was born in 1930. There was a cistern in front of the house that I lived in. The cistern collected rain water. The pump was worn and wouldn't work. Andy Wolfrum's father had used the cistern as a water source. There were no rivers, lakes, or water sources nearby. So water had to come from other cisterns. Andy Wolfrum drilled a well around 1936. Our house was a football field away from his, and we used his well water. We bathed in galvanized wash tubs, which were also used to wash clothes. They held about twenty gallons of water. My father had a Model A Ford car. We used the car to haul water. We used 10 gallon milk containers to hold water.

Don Wolfrum, March 06, 2023

Andy was concerned about Sulphur being in the water. He tasted the first samples to check on Sulphur content. Sulphur tastes and smells bad.

Don Wolfrum, March 07, 2023

Tell me about an adventure you've been on

 Tell me about an adventure you've been on.

by Don Wolfrum on March 04, 2023.

My first reaction: I've not been on any dangerous events. Then a memory came to me. I was in the US Army on basic training at Ft. Eustis, Virginia. We were sliding under live machine gun fire. Bullets were whizzing a few inches above our heads. If you raised your head six inches, you would probably die. Now, that's a bit dangerous. Instant death, if you make the wrong move.

Don Wolfrum, March 04, 2023

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Don Wolfrum, March 04, 2023

Dave: Did you go under machine gun fire in the army?

When did you get your first car?

When did you get your first car?

 by Don Wolfrum on February 26, 2023.

I got a 1926 Model T Ford, when I was a teenager. Neighbors gave it to me. I was fourteen in 1944, It was a good car, and I was able to keep it running. I didn't know of any other kids, who were given cars, so getting a car was special.

Don Wolfrum, February 26, 2023 

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How did you decide to get married?

 I was in the Army at Ft. Eustis Virginia. I would go to Richmond, Virginia on week ends and holidays. We would go to the USO and other things. My wife and her close friend went to the USO also. I took my wife's friend, my future wife, and some other girls to my wife's friend, Gaynelle's home, from the USO. Gaynelle told my future wife that she wasn't interested in me. After that, my future wife Mary, started sitting next to me in the car. Mary called me at Ft. Eustis and told me that her boss told her to call me and get straightened out, because I was affecting Mary's behavior. The call was announced at my whole company's group, standing in formation at our company. Mary's mother helped Mary to get permission to get married.

June 27, 1953 we were married at Resurrection Lutheran church in Richmond, Virginia. Mary's sister and her husband stood with us at our wedding. There were flowers at the ceremony, because another wedding was scheduled shortly after our wedding.

Sixty nine years after the wedding: My wife waits on me hand and foot. She puts drops in my eyes. If I had not married a teen ager, I might not have someone to help me now.

High school subjects

 What were your favorite subjects in high school

High school subjects:

Latin, German, Greek, English, Math, Civics

Description: Desired, liked, popular, affection, fashionable, in demand

These courses don't fit a liked list. I'd say English was disliked the least.

What I'm saying is; none of my high school subjects were a favorite.

I took four years of Latin, two years of German, and three years of Greek.

Model T Ford

 What did you hide from your parents as a child?

I didn't want my parents to know that I consumed alcoholic beverages.

I had a model T Ford that was given to me by neighbors, when I was a teenager.

A couple friends and I drank too much, and I wrecked the car. I do remember drinking wine, but I don't know what else. My mother knew what had happened, but she tried to keep it quiet. She and no one else talked to me about it.

The car could have been repaired, but I didn't do it.

The car ended up in the junk yard.

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What are your favorite recipes either to cook or to eat?

I like baking white yeast bread. I also like baking cinnamon rolls.

I enjoy eating banana bread. Pound cake and strawberries sounds good.

Pulled pork is one of my favorite foods.

I like beans...all kinds of beans. Pinto beans are tasty, lima butter beans are good, baked beans, refried beans, redbeans and rice, beans and bacon, great northern beans, green beans, and bean dip are musical fruit. There was a truckstop in Mississippi that served just bread and red beans. You could eat all you could eat.

My wife makes jambalaya gumbo. I like boiled shrimp, fried oysters, and raw oysters. She makes frito pie. She makes halusky. She makes shepherd pie.

Root beer floats are special. Then there are milk shakes. Peach pie is real good.

I've eaten more chocolate pudding than most people.

Chocolate cake with chocolate syrup and soft ice cream at Golden Corral is a treat. Turkey breast with cranberry sauce at the Golden Corral is tasty. 

Swiss steak; I haven't had any in a long time, but I'm ready for some anytime. 

A restaurant in Michigan had chicken giblets and rice in their freezer.

Try baked biscuits and honey from Bob Evans sometime!

A restaurant in Yuma, AZ served guacamole in serving bowls. You could eat all you wanted, and they refilled the bowls.

Pizza and pepperoni please taste buds. Just plain pepperoni does the same.

We can't forget peanut butter, mixed nuts, and chocolate peanut clusters.

A truck stop in Gary, IN had moist lemon cake on their menu. It was the best I have ever tasted.

There's some good barbecue in Memphis, TN.

They served boiled shrimp sandwiches on a train from Gary, IN.

We ate at a restaurant in Allison Park, PA, which offered all the ice cream with trimmings that you could eat. Sadly, they went out of business.

Eat and Park in Allison Park, PA was one of our favorite restaurants.

My mother gave hunks of Wisconsin cheddar cheese as gifts. A slice six inches in diameter and one half inch thick made a sandwich. George Limber's store in Ayersville, OH, sold the same sandwich.

Try this: Let a hunk of sharp cheddar cheese set a couple hours to let it get soft and to room temperature. If you don't enjoy it, then you're not like me.

What is one of the most expensive things that you've ever bought?

Cars, trucks, and houses are the most expensive things I've bought.

We bought a house in Defiance, Ohio for about $15,000 in the 1960's.

We bought a car for about $33,000 in 2013. The trucks weren't very expensive.

A Volvo truck tractor; $199,000. Add the price of two trailers. 

How do you like to spend a lazy day?

I like to spend time with family and friends.

I like music. I have over 300 videos in my favorites on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qikVMywzkwk&list=FLJDbAfuV8-EL8JDfo_rMZDQ&index=24  Sometimes I post a link to lyrics in YouTube. Vern Gosdin wrote Till The End. I posted a link to the lyrics of that video in the comments on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qikVMywzkwk Lyrics: https://youtu.be/Y4csy3-79jY 

I tried to find my comment, but I couldn't. Vern Gosdin died April 28, 2009. 

Marlee Callender posts information about her Henry, who is our grandson. My daughter Vicki Callender spends time with Henry, and helps in keeping us updated.

     

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Are you still friends with any of your classmates from grade school?

 Joe Gizienski, who lives in Curtisville PA is a friend. Frank Miglioroto, a retired truck driver is a friend. He lives in Pittsburgh. I have several other friends, who were truck drivers. My grade school classmates live in Ohio, and I don't have contact with them.

I have several friends on the internet. Walt Armour is a friend who lives near Phoenix AZ. He's from Philadelphia PA. chouchou lives in Singapore. She's formerly from Los Angeles and Germany. Hans Wolfrum is a relative, and is from Bavaria Germany. He and chouchou are friends.

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Who did you go the prom with?

Concordia didn't have proms. Why? I don't know, and I don't remember any discussion about it.

We did have something unusual.

We did have a jail. It was used to lock up captured slaves. That's all I know about it.

We did have a homecoming queen. She selected me as her escort, which I was proud of.

I was homecoming king in some respects.

A friend of mine in Defiance and I went to Ft. Wayne on date with a couple girls. Her whole family left her house on the night we had the date. 

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What did you look forward to the most as a child?

I liked experimenting with electricity. I had a car horn. I would hook up the positive terminal to a battery, and when I hooked up the negative terminal, the horn would blow. Years later, when I was around thirty years old, I built a stereo amplifier, out of a kit. The amplifier had tubes, and they glowed with blue flickers, when playing.

Andy Wolfrum ran an electric line to our house. I wired our house with a plug, and two light fixture outlets, when I was about fourteen. I did it all by myself without any help. Nobody asked me to do it. I paid for it.

I worked for a farmer while I was in grade school. He had a device in his chicken house, which turned on the lights early in the morning. It was an alarm clock which dropped a handle, and turned on a switch, when the alarm went off. It impressed me.

I looked forward to Grandma Wolfrum’s cooking and baking. Her dandelion salads appealed to me, and her sugar cookies also.

My grandfather, Andy, would take me along, when he got food ground up for the animals. He would go to the bar, while he was there, and take me with him.
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Don Wolfrum, October 23, 2022 

What is your best advice when it comes to raising children?

My answer is based on this Wikipedia article:

HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/PARENTING_STYLES

Four styles are discussed in the article:

Authoritative, Authoritarian, Neglectful, and Indulgent/Permissive.

I choose the Indulgent/Permissive style.

I choose my grandfather Andy Wolfrum’s style.

I knew a girl, whose life was harmed by an authoritarian mother.

I think my wife, Mary Ruth, agrees with me on this.

Don Wolfrum, October 17, 2022

What famous or important people have you encountered in real life?

 Angelo Fonzi from Pittsburgh, PA was a famous person, who my wife and I knew.

His business was located in Hammond, IN at the end of his career. Hammond IN is near Chicago IL His freight terminals were in Hammond IN, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia,
This is intended to show the size of Great American Lines, and is not precise. It does show that Angelo Fonzi’s life touched many lives over a wide area.
Universal Am-Can Ltd is the name of the company, which bought Great American lines.
Frank Miglioroto, Sfaceat Kiyway on Facebook, is a former driver for Great American Lines.
Fonzi’s wife Ellen sold their house in Dyer IN for $900,000. She has moved to Pittsburgh PA.

Angelo Fonzi obituary:
HTTPS://WWW.LEGACY.COM/US/OBITUARIES/NWITIMES/NAME/ANGELO-FONZI-OBITUARY?ID=11866987

Don Wolfrum, October 15, 2022

2018 Events in Allison Park, a Pittsburgh suburb.

We lived in a Devlin’s Pointe Townhouse in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, which is a Pittsburgh suburb.

We ate at King’s restaurant often.
Joseph D. Gizienski and Donna ate there too.
Joe bought his dog hamburgers at the restaurant, and he paid for our meals.
One of his early accomplishments was he started a truck he had bought, which had been underwater. He was an owner operator in the trucking business, and had employees working in the freight trucking business. He owned a garage in 1972, where he salvaged 18 wheeler type tractors. He built a truck garage near his home about the same time. He bought stationary diesel engines in the US, shipped and sold them in South America. He bought a farm, which had a vein of coal in it, removed rocks, and sold the coal. Tesone Trucking  Company in Allison Park, helped to remove the rocks.He bought and constructed a tankfarm tank on his local gas station. Estimated price to fill the tank; millions of dollars.
Our daughter Vicki Callender was 12 years old in 1972. She was a babysitter for Joe. He had five daughters. Tammy, Terry, Tracy Theressa, and Tina. Joe supplied the daughters with cars. They dove the cars as a team, when they were three to ten years old. Tammy, the oldest, would steer, and Tina the youngest would push down the gas pedal.
Our daughter Vicki is now 62 years old, and is secretary at East Union Presbyterian Church. West Deer police still meet at East Union Presbyterian Church, and Tina Gizienski is in West Deer law enforcement.
Joe lives in a recently built home. It has an elevator to take passengers up from the basement.

Don Wolfrum, October 14, 2022

Lake Erie has shallow water in some places.

 In 1954 my wife and I visited my cousin in Toledo, Ohio.

Phillip took us on a boat ride in Lake Erie in his boat.
A storm came up, and we thought we were in an emergency.
I don’t know how we found out, but the water we were in was waist deep.
Phillip Layne became a MD foot doctor.