My dad knew her. He didn't speak much of her, but he did say she was quite lovely indeed.
I'm not sure I know why she died so young. I thought I'd heard she'd died of fever or rheumatoid arthritis or something along those lines, but then I found this...
This is the headstone, in the same Rockville cemetery, of Mary Lou's parents Chuck and Mary Forni.
I think I see why (as I was told) Mary just wasn't the same after 1955. She lost her child on June 3rd and then her husband on July 15, just a few weeks later.
But she was good to my father and me.
When it came to my mother, not so much. She supposedly once told my mother that she was a "nobody with nothing from West Virginia." Mary always denied saying such a thing.
Well, now they're ALL past this nonsense....I think....
