But back to the twins, I wonder now, knowing what I do about our ancestry, why these twins were such a wonder. There is plenty of history of twins in the Ostrowski (Ostroski, Ostrowsky, etc.) lineage. But nevertheless, the Tady Twins were revered, by their grandparents Mary and Tommy and the rest of the clan. And unlike those from years past, both boys survived and thrived. No wonder that Mom shuddered thinking of what could have been when I would lament in my teen years, "I wish I were twins!" My cry was because I could not be in two places at one time and there was always something more where I wanted to be than where I was at the moment. Mom shuddered because she knew it could have happened, she could have had twin me's!
Here they are, darling little guys, a Sepia photo retrieved from PA, Mom's writing at the bottom.Look at the arms linked and one more serious than the other.
I know they were a couple years older than me and their names were Fred and Frank; one is still alive today I have learned, but I don't know where. Fred is dead, and I do not know which was whom. But what a couple of cuties! Their parents first child, their older brother, Tom has also passed on and his wife has not wanted me to post anything about them or him relaying this message through a new found cousin, not even communicating to me directly but since I do not know her and these are from my family and my memories, I am sharing.
The way I know they are older than me besides my research that shows they were born in 1942 is look at this next photo. Yours truly is the youngest, wailing perhaps and subdued by Mom in 1945, among several of my boy cousins. Check out those short pants and shoes and socks. The Tady twins are to the right of myself, one either very concerned or asking Mom to do something with the noise. Again I do not know which is Fred and which is Frank. The boys to the left are the Mroz cousins from Wisconsin who were visiting all of us in PA. Rollie is the youngest, the farthest to the left also looking at me with great concern and his brother Jerry is bearing up; he is older and likely wishing he did not have to be among the beasties~ I gave copies of this photo to both the Mroz cousins a few years back; Rollie who passed away last year got a big kick out of it and reminded me that I had tormented them all my life. I keep this photo framed and on my family display shelf; it is one of my favorites. You heard some of my escapades when I arrived in WI with my grandma to visit the Mroz's my Great Aunt Francie, grandma's sister on a March Sepia post http://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/sepia-saturday-great-aunt-francie.html
I only have one more Tady photo and I am sure that Jack, their father and Helen's husband has passed on, but I found this one from 1956 taken at my Grand Aunt Mary's during a family gathering...there were so many people there that the lawn chairs had to be brought inside the house to seat everyone. Darn, wish I had a Helen Janosky Tady photo here also (I learned through research that she passed away in this last year in a care facility in PA. I leave this Sepia Post with Jack Tady, father of the boys! Notice the look on his face, wonder who he was watching, maybe it was one of us kids!
As always, click on the title or here to get to the Sepia Saturday post site where you can browse through and visit others in the international community. We celebrate our 50th week this week! What a journey!
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