6/29/88
Dear Cousin John &
Marie,
Thank you for your
lovely letters. It’s so nice to hear
about cousin John’s family that is doing
so nicely in this troubled world of
ours.
I know you and your
lovely brothers and sisters were very
close to my dear Mother Catherine as you
know when your Dear Mother Mary was very
sick my dear Mother traveled to Jersey
and helped when my grandmother [Yankee
Pat Tinneny’s wife Margaret] was working
around the Holy Family Church day and
night. They were the happy days going
[to] visit Aunt Mary and Uncle John
[Mary Jane Tinneny & husband John
McColgan]. We were a close-knit family
on my Dear Mother’s family.
On my Father’s side
Father’s dad was a Civil War Veteran and
came from Germany with a Title Von Anton
Sickinger and was wounded in the War.
My cousin Florence (Florence Miller Mack
was 90 years old.) she died in 1987.
She had our Family Tree finished and
gave all the family history to my
brother [Frank Sickinger]. He was to
have copies made but you know my
brother. He never did. History is
always[s] repeating Wars and rumors of
war.
I’m feeling much
better and I’m now able to knit, attend
classes in arts & crafts and am also a
volunteer. I’m aloud to go on shopping
trips also last Thursday we had 2 busses
to Ocean City leaving at 9:00 a.m. and
arrived at 11:00 a.m. dinner at 12:00.
What a beautiful day it is. Leaving at
4:00p.m. It was just about ready to rain
and it did, arrived home at 6:00 p.m.
Never a dull moment.
I received a
wonderful favor [from] My Lord, which
I’m very happy about. My husband’s
daughter came to visit me after she
heard I was mugged on the church ground,
Incarnation of Our Lord’s Parish. When
her Father died his children were all
married and having families. Bernice
now 70 yrs old had 4 boys and 4 girls.
All but one girl is single and in her
last year in college as a Doctor.
I prayed for more
than 13 years as a widow that someone
would take care of me, as you know I’m
the last one in my family. My cousin
Jean after visiting with me for 25 years
and visiting me in Olney would come to
dinner every week after shopping all day
in down town and would sit down and
enjoy a wonderful dinner with me and my
beloved husband Frank A. Maggioncalda.
He was the Frank the 8th in
French Italian.
His parents came from
Switzerland and settled in Vineland and
raised his family (6 boys and 4 girls)
also build many landmarks still standing
(made many bricks which are on the main
streets of Vineland. My brother Frank
was the first grandchild.
My Dear Mother
Katherine [Yankee Pat’s daughter
Katherine Tinneny] came to USA in 1893,
and I had the pleasure of the sewing box
all these years. It will be 100 years
old in 1993. [She] also worked in the
mills in Manayunk to bring the whole
family to the USA what a wonderful model
of a Mother I had, could play the violin
and mandolin, also taught music at St.
Mary’s School in Manayunk.
God has been extra
good to me which makes me feel very
happy to be in a wonderful home
Philadelphia Protestant and will
celebrate 100 years in 1990.
Have a wonderful 4th
of July and have fun.
Love L3M’s
When her brother Frank died Margaret was
called by his daughter but did not
attend the funeral. Margaret and her
husband had no children. As of January
1996, Margaret was 93 years old and
lived in Saint Joseph's Home for the
Aged at 1182 Holland Road, Holland,
Pennsylvania 18966.