Family Grandparents Archive
Santoro Grandparents
Felix Santoro came to America from Potenza in Italy just after the turn of the century. He worked in Cannonsburg
and later moved to Pittsburgh. He was in the Army in WW1 and later in Panama.
Then he worked for the Pittsburgh Water Company for a brief while before starting his own glass business.
Sylvia Santoro was born in Pittsburgh in the early 1900s. She married Felix while still young, and was a
dedicated housewife and mother. When I was kid they lived about 1 mile from me and their home
was my second home as a kid. Their house was 1/4 mile from Fox Chapel High School, so I had a key to their house
and would often stop there before and after school.
Grandparents home in Fox Chapel
Grandpaps business, later to be Dads
Great grandparents
Great grandparents
grandpap and friend
Sylvia
felix
Sylvia and Felix
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me in grandparents bed
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They always had a big Christmas tree. We would spend Christmas
eve and Christmas day dinners at their house.
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Uncle Frank. He was a wonderful man. Like a second Dad to
He would take me to rosedale sportsmans club and taught me how to shoot pistol,
rifle skeet and trap. But he never hunted.
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Uncle Frank
Felix, and pics of ur GSD Satan.
Morse Grandparents
Howard Odel Morse was born in Pittsburgh in the very late 1800s. He started out playing clarinet,
supposedly for Sousa's marching band. Later he became a Police Detective and finally a private
detective. He died when I was 2 years old. My Dad said he was a "tough" guy, but he loved his
grandkids.
Hattie Morse was also born in the late 1800s, on a farm in Ohio. Of German ancestry, she was the sweetest
and kindest person I have ever known. She spent 2 weeks a month with us and then 2 weeks
with Uncle Howard, her son. She often watched me when Mom and Dad went out or on trips.
As I got older it was me watching her!
Grandma Hattie Morse
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Gramma Morse and me
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Gramma Morse, Mom, Billy and Grandpap Morse
Gramma Morse, Billy, Grandpap Morse
Grandpap Howard Odell Morse
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