The Mexican Irish Wars 1945 – 1960

I was given two more baby sisters before the inevitable end of the marriage in 1960. I guess a wife and four daughters were a bit much to be outnumbered by. Dad went on to remarry and have two sons with his second wife. He died at the age of forty-nine. Mom never married again. She was greatly admired by all of our friends because of her beauty and she was envied by neighborhood women. She raised her daughters alone and did a pretty good job of it. She went to work after the divorce as a keypunch operator and worked until she was in her mid-seventies. Mom passed when she was almost eighty-one.

We kids never mourned the end of the marriage. We were relieved to see it end. So much passion, so much drama, so much excitement belongs on the stage or the screen, not in your house!