A lovely Wife

La moglie di Tony era canadese di Orangeville, Ontario. Ha lottato nella sua relazione con Tony anche se lei lo amava e voleva sposarlo, la sua famiglia disapprovava il suo status Italiano e cattolico. Tony incontrò sua moglie a Baltimore Hats dove entrambi lavoravano, lei iniziò a seguirlo, lasciando Orangeville e venendo a Guelph a lavorare. Tony lavorava all'ultimo piano e veniva pagato in base a quanto lavoro faceva piuttosto che all'ora come sua moglie. Ricorda una storia divertente di come il sovrintendente gli disse di " hurry up and marry this girl, you’re costing me money, Tony " perché Tony le parlava ogni mattina. Finì per sposare sua moglie nel 1946 e trascorse 75 anni di amorevole matrimonio con lei fino alla sua morte un paio di mesi fa. L'amore tra di loro è evidente e vivo come sempre. Quando si sono sposati, Tony aveva 21 anni mentre sua moglie aveva 18 anni, è diventata cattolica per lui e ha anche preso lezioni nella chiesa che frequentava, anche dopo che Tony le aveva detto che non deve " I told her you don’t have convert for me, but she said: ‘I want to go to church with you on Sundays’, so I said if that’s what you want to do then we’ll go and see a priest. So, went to see the priest and he converted her, and we used to go to church together, you see."

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Tony’s wife was a Canadian citizen from Orangeville, Ontario. Tony speaks of how she had struggled in her relationship with him because even though she loved him and wanted to marry him, her family had disapproved of his Italian and catholic status. Tony met his wife at the Biltmore hats where they both had worked (she started working after him) leaving Orangeville and coming to Guelph to work at that time. Tony used to work on the top floor and would get paid according to how much work he did rather than by the hour, which was how his wife was getting paid at that time. He recalls a funny story of how the superintendent told him to “hurry up and marry this girl, you’re costing me money, Tony” as Tony used to speak to her every single morning. He ended up marrying his wife in 1946 and spending 75 years of loving marriage with her until she passed away a couple of months ago, still the love between them is as alive as ever. Tony was 21 while his wife was 18 when they had gotten married, she turned catholic for him and also took lessons at the church he frequented, even after Tony told her that she does not have to; “I told her you don’t have convert for me, but she said ‘but I want to go to church with you on Sundays, so I said if that’s what you want to do then we’ll go and see a priest. So, went to see the priest and he converted her, and we used to go to church together, you see.”