The ‘Bullard Events’ Company Newsletter Notes Babe’s Death
January 2, 2012 Leave a Comment
Close-up from the front of "Bullard Events"
A few days ago, I noted that Babe had worked at The Bullard Company before he was enlisted in the army. That post noted that the Fairfield (County, Conn.) Museum and History Center had sent me some information about “Vito” Mauro’s death in the company’s newsletter.
Well, Elizabeth Rose, library director for the Fairfield Museum, sent me a photocopy of the newsletter last week, so I thought I’d share that page, from Sept. 13, 1945 (four months after Babe was killed) even though there’s really no new information. Read more of this post
Letters from an Everyman in WWII
Correction on Vito Mauro; New Info about Babe Post-High School
December 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Issued by The Bullard Company to my grandfather.
It seems I made a mistake in my last post about Vito Mauro — which is really the beauty of doing this blog. I’m learning more about my own family in the process of blogging Babe’s letters.
In the course of finding the mistake, I have also learned a little more about Babe’s life almost immediately after he graduated from high school in June 1942.
As I mentioned in the earlier post about The Bullard Company, my grandfather Frank Mauro received a certificate of condolence from The Bullard Company. It commemorated the death of a member of the Bullard family, Vito Mauro. I couldn’t figure out who Vito was, and I assumed it was one of my great-grandfathers.
But it turns out the only “Vito” in my family tree is Vito Martinelli, my maternal grandmother’s father. Or, put another way, Babe’s grandfather on his mother’s side. Read more of this post
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