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Dover Woman Remembers Christmas ItrJ. EDITOR’S NOTE: The home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur: I (Mary) Nichols Sr. at 603 Wills av., Dover, always is open to || friends and relatives ami it is an unusual day when at least | || one of their children or grandchildren does not stop for a | visit and a sample of “goodies” from grandma’s kitchen.The family comprises: Mr. and Mrs. Albert (Mary) Nichols | if of Dover and their son-in-law and daughter, Tom and Angela | Glass and granddaughter, Der/ise; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur if (Penny) Zurcher of New Philadelphia and their children, Ste-| phanie, Mrs. Dennis (June) Contini, Christopher and Pat-I ricia; Mr. and Mrs. Max (Lee) Waddington and son, Max Jr. | of Opelika, Ala.; Valia, who resides at home; Mr. and Mrs. | Arthur (Carol) Nichols Jr. anrd children, Ralph, Patrick and Chantel, of Dover, Mrs. Josephine McKnight and sons, Mike | and Mark of Columbus, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe (JoAnn) Ham-1 mond and children, Holli, Lori, Scot and Matthew of Dover.Each year as the Christmas season approaches the children and grandchildren question Mrs. Nichols about Christmas in her native Italy and the following is her story.Will“When I watch the fire in the| I managed to get through the hearth at Christmastimeandsee the lights on the trees and the homes, I remember other Christmases, several sad and many many happy.My mother died when I wasday without too many tears and by the time of my second Christmas here we had a baby and that helped ease my loneliness.A kind neighbor had taughtand later my father left our;me to speak enough English to home in Italy and came to the go shopping and again I cooked United States. When I was al-ja big dinner for family and most 20, my uncle brought me j friends, to this country to be with my Those early Christmases were father. I met your grandfather much like the ones in Italy in Steubenville and we were j when we would have friends in married there before coming to to visit on Christmas eve and Dover to make our home. then everyone would attend Although your grandfather’s 2 Mass. The next day we wouldbrothers and my father lived with us, the first Christmas wasagain attend services in the church before gathering for din-a lonely one for me because I ner missed my brothers, sisters and ^ no|. jjUy presents but friends in Italy. j eXpressed 0ur love with gifts ofI knew how to cook, so I pre-; fruit, nuts and candies andMrs. Nichols holds her great-granddaughter, Denise Glass, and Denise's mother, Angela, sits on the arm of grandma's chair. Other grandchildren gathered around to hear grandma's story are Holli Hammond (L), Lori Hammond, June Contini, Matt Hammond, Scot Hammond, Christopher Zurcher and Tricia Zurcher., .. .. ’ . . J;! ’ „____u ! Christmas were in the churchmost important part for me was i Most of you are old enough topared a big dinner for relatives:there was as * L and the grownups as well as the cooking a big meal and baking recall the Christmas 3 yearsand friends but ^ourrand-|Overthese children looked forward to go- special cookies ar/d sharing both j ago when grandpa was in Unionfather had to buy the groceries j today as these goodies were because I couldn’t speak Eng-1 rare treats, hsh. * In Italy, the onlying there to see the tree. Although this was beforesignS-_ °. I there were such things as elec-T! frir* liahtc- thp chimmpr nf can.j ago when grandpa (Hospital. He had decorated theagain and even though you don’t all come home for dinner j as you once did, we look for-! ward to a visit from each of youspecial cookies ar/d sharing with family and friends.Grandpa and I tried not to j house before he got sick ar/d I sometime during the day. show it because we didn’t want (each night we’d light the lights | people say Christmastn malfP thp nthpr rhildrpn lin- ifnr u p lrnpu; hp pmilrl cpp thpm icosts
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Dover Times Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Tue, Dec 24, 1968
Page 8
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