Pawtucket to Rumford

While this was occurring, I think her parents were trying to think of some way to get rid of us! Shortly afterwards, they gave us a deed to the property at 683-685 Armistice Boulevard [in Pawtucket.] We made some changes there and stayed until the fall of 1957 when we built the house at 9 Rich Street in Rumford. By this time, Paul had been born on July 28th, 1951, and David on September 10th, 1957. Carlos in the meanwhile after a year at St. Teresa’s in Pawtucket had started at St. Margaret’s and for a while he lunched at the Keough’s on Mayfair Drive. (Joe Keough was a P.C. classmate and Virginia Keough had also graduated from Regis College, and with Odie had been active in the R.I. Regis Club.)

The Keoughs had introduced us to their neighbors, Charles and Phyllis Kelaghan, who had a son Bobby, who was in the class at St. Margaret’s that Carlos entered. While we were still in Pawtucket, Odie, with several other girls who had graduated from Regis, had formed a Rhode Island Regis Club. One girl, Eleanor O’Reilly, was married to John O’Reilly, another P.C. classmate of mine. While in Pawtucket on Blaisdell Avenue, we had been neighbors to Dr. Bill Casey and his wife, Mary, who was an E.P. girl, whose brother had been a classmate of mine at East Providence High School. Mary was also a Regis girl. Virginia Keough, Joe’s wife, had a sister, Helen, who lived in Rumford with her husband, Ray Keough (no relation to Joe.) Eleanor O’Reilly had a brother, Charles Kelley, married to Betty. He was also a P.C. grad and a very good friend of Dr. John Cunningham, and Charlie’s classmate, who later became our family doctor, and also a good friend. These people were all the members of a good gang, along with the Landry’s and the Leddy’s, who also lived on Mayfair Drive. At this writing, March 2006, the O’Reilly’s, the Kelaghans, the Landry’s have passed on, as has Dr. Cunningham, Charlie Kelly and Dav Carroll, another P.C. classmate, whom we introduced to Anne Slattery. Dav and Anne later married. She was also a Regis grad.

In the meantime, we had some good friends in Fall River. Alice Carvalho had been Odie’s classmate at Regis. She had an older brother, John, three months older than I, who had served as a dentist in the Army. After the war, the Navy opened up their officer’s club in Newport to Army officers. John got the information and we joined, and it was the locale if a lot of Saturday nites. Alice married Walter Neves, whose family had moved from East Providence to Fall River, and along with Neeb (Anibel) and Doris Almeida, Joe and Dot Moniz, Al and Lee Zervis, man a nite was enjoyed in Newport. At this writing, Joe and Dot Moniz, John Carvalho’s wife Irene, and Neeb Almeida [and his wife] are also dead. But the memories remain.