Our Stay on Gorham Street
Lou left Gorham St in 1928 when he left Rochester for New York and the School of Business at Columbia University. Following graduation he joined the accounting firm of Lybrand Ross Bros. and Montgomery in New York.
Mitch returned to Rochester and Gorham St following his graduation from Cornell. He left Gorham St when he and Ruth married in 1931. He was an English teacher in the Rochester public school system.
Pearl left Gorham St in 1936 and moved to Washington, DC where she had accepted a civil service position.
Ethel left Gorham St in 1941 when she and Ed married. She returned in 1944 when Ed went to Officer Candidate School and then was sent overseas. When Ed was discharged they stayed on Gorham St until they bought their house on Laurelton Rd in 1947.
Bucky left in 1944 when he joined the Navy. He returned in 1946 and stayed until 1947 when he left for the University of Wyoming. (By this time Pop had remarried.) When he came home for the holidays he would stay with Et and Ed. After graduating from Wyoming and getting a masters degree from Michigan, he took a job with Bell Aircraft in Buffalo as a statistician.
As we said earlier. Mom's health deteriorated from the time of Mitch's death - high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis. By 1945 she was becoming more restricted in the things that she could do. At this time Ethel was living on Gorham St and she was watching over Mom. Jennie Baldwin, a roomer at the house at this time was also able to help Mom. By the spring of 1946, Mom had become bedridden. The war was over, and the servicemen were returning. She lived long enough to see Bucky, Gene, and Eddie return from overseas, but she wasn't able to exhibit any feelings of joy or relief. She was suffering from her own illness. Now it was Mom that needed looking after. It was a different house now. At the end it was Et and Pearl who were taking care of Mom. Mom died at home in September 1946.
Pop married Rose Dankner, a widow from Montreal, in 1947. He was lonesome, and he wanted and needed someone to be with and to take care of him. Rose was a strong willed person with a temper. She was strong willed enough to get Pop to install a downstairs toilet on Gorham St. The life she had in Rochester was apparently not the life she had led in Montreal or the life she was expecting to lead. She had expected more of a social life, and Pop was not much for going out. (He was still working full time at the meat market.) So they fought. Pop sold the two double houses in about 1953, and Rose and Pop moved into an apartment on St Paul St. But Pop wasn't happy. At times he would tell Ethel or Buck about how unreasonable Rose was being. And Rose would tell Buck the problems that she was having with Pop. He was no longer the boss, and he was living with a demanding woman. Neither one of them was happy. Rose died in 1955 and Pop moved himself across the street into the Jewish Old Aged Home, which was then on St Paul St. Pop by now had become a meek man. When he was with Et and her family he was not the old Pop; he was no longer demanding, and now he would try to watch what he said in order not to offend Ethel. Now he was scared of her, of what she might say. The old man had really changed. Pop died in October 1961.
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