Family pictures


My father, Frank P. Siwiec, before marriage.


My mother at age 19.


My parents, courting.


My mother as a young girl with her brother and her parents.


A formal picture of my mother as a young woman with her brother and her parents.


My mother's parents' butcher shop. They are behind the counter; customers are to the right.


My grandmother, my mother's brother Anthony, my mother.


My father's oldest sister Victoria marrying John Otreba in 1933. So my father, on the right, is 26 years old.


My mother, Marie Rose Siwiec.


My mother, somewhat older.


From the Perth Amboy Evening News.


My father's original office at 197 Hall Avenue in Perth Amboy, NJ


Upon move to 336 State Street, Perth Amboy.
My parents also owned the store to the left and my mother owned a three story building two doors further left.


View from the front door of 336 State Street, Perth Amboy.
Father at the right, mother at third desk back, Mr. Sawicz—the primary real estate salesman— at the second desk.
My father's desk was the one farthest back.
Notice the adding/subtracting machine on a tall stand just after the file cabinets.


The wedding party, 1940.
Frances Pinkos as maid of honor, Julia Siwiec—sister of Frank—next to Pinkos and Edward Wierzbicki as best man.


Nuptial news article.


Marriage of Andrew Siwiec to Mary in 1935.


Marriage of Jacob Siwiec to Mary in 1953.