"I graduated in 1943 and went to Wilmington, Delaware and got a job with E. I. DuPont de Nemours.  I lived with my widowed Aunt Hazel Sweeney Foy and her daughter Patty.  My family left the coal region during the war and Dad got a job with the Philadelphia Navy Yard Fire and Flood Control school; so I left Wilmington and transferred to John Marshall Research Center , a division of DuPont's Fabric and Finishes Department where I met my husband, Phil Rosbach.   He was from Michigan and a graduate of Notre Dame.  He passed away in 1995.   We had five children, four boys and one girl.  They are all here near me in Aiken , South Carolina, with one son and his wife living near Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina.  We transferred here during the cold war and DuPont built a large nuclear plant for the government."

Quote per S. A. Carey

St. Joseph All Girl Drum and Bugle Corp.  My sister Betty was the head majorette.
She is the one on the right.  I played the bugle and am in the back row.  It was a lot of fun for us during our high school years. 

There is my graduation picture which isn't too clear.  The war was on and everything was on the cheap.

Then there one of Phil and I taken at the Desert Inn in Los Vegas about two  years before he passed away.  I always liked the photo. Frank Sinatra was entertaining that night.  We came out from his show and Keely Smith was playing in the lounge (That old black magic).  I thought I had died and gone to heaven.  I had a write up in the year book about the Corp and thought you might find it Interesting.

I do know my father was very popular on New Years Eve because he had black hair and it was considered good luck to have a dark haired man be the first one into your home on the New Year; so,he had to make the rounds of the neighborhood.  He also had a wonderful Irish tenor voice so he was popular at weddings, etc.  We had an upright piano and sometimes the brothers would gather round.  Uncle Mickey would play the piano, and the rest of us would sing.  Dad being the tenor and Uncle Eddie was bass.  Uncle Mickey was tremendous on the piano.   We would put a tablecloth over the keyboard and he would play "Kitten on the Key" which is difficult under any circumstances.  He was extremely talented.   I grew up during the depression and it affected  everyone.  Then World War II came along.  As soon as we graduated in 1943 all the boys in my class had to report for duty.  Teddy Carey, (Edward), your uncle Bobby Connors and Mickey Grady all ended up in airborne divisions and they all fought in the Battle of the Bulge under Anthony McAuliffe.  Teddy and Bobby were about a  year or two ahead of me in school.  After the war Teddy and Bobby got an apartment together in Philadelphia and found jobs.  By this time our family had relocated to Philadelphia so they would come visit.  In fact we had a lot of visitors from upstate who were working in the city at that time. 

 

The pictures of the St.Joseph's Drum and Bugle Corp came from my year book. It was taken in 1943, the year I graduated.  It was a very popular band and was invited to a good many functions in the area; however, the war limited our ability to get around.  Gas was rationed.

The picture above is cropped from the one she speaks of above.