Old Photo Sunday

Today's photo is of my husband's paternal grandfather. Joe emigrated from Lithuania when he was around 10 with his mother and some sisters. His father had come earlier. We found Grandpa's passenger manifest at Ellis Island in NYC. What's interesting is that the father is listed as the person responsible for these new arrivals to the USA, but his last name is already different than that of his wife and children. Their surname changed again after that. Good thing ~ I wouldn't have been able to pronounce either of 'em. (Kind of like Mr. Spock's mother, for those who are familiar with classic Star Trek.)


Grandpa was a very handy guy - Nod has his old Shopsmith and we've a bookcase that Grandpa built. Nod's mom's house had a wooden lamppost that was made by Grandpa, too, until it finally rotted away. Professionally, Grandpa designed machines that punched out cardboard into patterns so that they could be folded into boxes.

Grandpa died in 1993 at the age of 99. He got his first tooth cavity and filling the previous year, and he always insisted that his habit of chewing on pork chop bones helped keep his teeth strong.