Burbanksy

  My Mom,  (Becky) grew up during the depression. She was surrounded by many brothers and sisters (ten) all of my grandmother, Clara Magdalene's children. I never met this mysterious grandmother, as she succumbed to ovarian cancer when my mom was only ten years of age- (Becky was born in '33.)    My Grandpop, Mr. B. obviously had his hands full, trying to support all these  children he co-created in Trevose, Pennsylvania, then a rural Catholic township outside of Philadelphia.  He conducted trains driving up and down the Allegheny Railway, making delivery stops.  Exhausted, he barely had time for his youngest children, ages 13-7...     After a year or so he married an educated and tailored "Marguerite."  Her family was then considered 'well to do' but she was not very attractive physically- was still single and was also quite Mennonite!  She was also the high school teacher in Quakertown, where everyone eventually attended, including my mom and her siblings!