Shortly before we moved into the Rumford home David was born on September 10, 1957. Though Carlos had been admitted to St. Margaret’s School, when it came time for Paul to start school, there was no room, so he started school at Bay View, then transferred to St, Margaret’s in his second year. Jay was born on May 29, 1959 and both David and Jay started school at St. Margaret’s.
We stayed in Rumford until 1970, after Odie’s father died. Serafim Cardanha died on July 16, 1969 while Odie and I with Carlos and Paul were in Portugal. While at Lisbon at the home of her cousin Regina Quintanillo, the phone rang and to my surprise, she said the call was for me! It was Mickey with the news of the death of Odie’s father! We immediately made plans to return home. If the call had been a half hour later, we would have been on our way north to visit Coimbra [and] Oporto, but with no definite plans as to where we would stay!
After Odie’s father died her mother decided to give us the house at Blaisdell Avenue in Pawtucket. She decided to move to a first floor apartment in a house on Clyde Street that they owned, but she asked us to take over her family home. None of the boys, nor I, wanted to leave Rumford, but Odie convinced us to do so. David [entered] St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket, and Jay went to Moses Brown in Providence.
In the meantime Carlos graduated from Providence College in 1970 and married Lynne Freberg, daughter of Carl and Rita of Seekonk [MA] whom he had met at East Providence High School (after his first year at LaSalle Academy.)
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