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d over to Staten Island leaving my mother-in-law in the apartment, being I felt because my wife had six brothers and sisters that they could worry about her. I didn't see that it was my responsibility much longer. My wife was the youngest child, and we lived there almost 2 years.
It was either sometime in the fall of 1955 or the winter of 1956 that my mother called me from New Orleans.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; and said she wanted to visit again.
Mr. JENNER. You were then in New York?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; well, Lee was still with her, and my wife frowned upon this, and being that we did have a one-bedroom apartment, and we did have two children at this time there was no way at all we could accommodate two of them. She was very upset about this that I wouldn't have her up. There was nothing I could do about it, though. I knew if she came up they were coming up to stay, and I didn't want a repeat of what we had. So in February 1956, I joined the Air Force and was stationed at Mitchel Air Force Base in New York which is about 30, 40 miles east of New York City. In October 1956, Lee joined the Marine Corps.
Mr. JENNER. How did that come to your attention?
Mr. PIC. My mother informed me of this fact.
Mr. PIC. We were writing again. So, it was just a matter of corresponding by mail up until the Christmas holidays of 1957 when my mother--let me make sure that date is right--I am fairly certain, sir; that it was the Christmas holidays of 1957 rather than the Christmas holidays of 1958--that she visited us.
Mr. JENNER. She did come to New York?
Mr. PIC. Right. She come to--we had moved to 104 Avenue C East Meadow, on Long Island. I had two children but we had a 3-bedroom apartment which was part of base housing and we could accommodate her here.
She came from Fort Worth when she arrived. Somehow or another between New Orleans and this visit she and Lee had gone back to Fort Worth.
Mr. JENNER. You were aware of the fact she had returned to Fort Worth?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And you learned that through correspondence?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. With her.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; her position at that time, so she told us, was that she was a greeter for the city of Fort Worth. She would welcome people to town and things like this.
Mr. JENNER. I think she was employed for a while in an organization called Welcome Wagon. That is a national organization.
Mr. PIC. When she was employed is when she visited us. I think this was Christmas of 1957, is that right?
Mr. ELY. I think that would be the same thing probably, Welcome Wagon greets people.
Mr. PIC. Is this 1957 when she had that job?
Mr. JENNER. I am not sure of the date but it is true that during that, when she returned to Fort Worth sometime along there she did have a position of that character.
Mr. PIC. She stayed over the Christmas holidays, left approximately the 10th of January, sometime.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have conversations here about Lee during that time?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What did she say?
Mr. PIC. Lee was in the Marine Corps, Lee was very happy to be in the Marine Corps, Lee was proud to be in the Marine Corps. Lee loved the Marine Corps. He just liked it.
Mr. JENNER. I see. What had occurred to Robert in the meantime? This is December of 1957. Was he still in the service?
Mr. PIC. No, sir; he was not, I don't believe. I think he had gotten discharged and gotten married, was residing in Fort Worth with his wife.
Mr. JENNER. He was discharged in the spring of 1956-1957, rather; and stayed at Exchange Alley for a short while.
Mr. PIC. I don't know that.
Mr. JENNER. Then went to Fort Worth and your mother and your brother Lee followed and your brother Lee attended high school for about 6 or 7 weeks in the fall of 1957 in Fort Worth, Arlington Heights High School, and enlisted in October 1957, in the Marines.
Mr. PIC. Lee enlisted in 1956, I believe.
Mr. ELY. 1956.
Mr. JENNER. 1956 was it. Then your brother Robert was discharged, mustered out in 1956?
Mr. PIC. That sounds about right. And stayed in Exchange Alley a short time, didn't like it, went on to Fort Worth.
After she left in January of 1958 we continued to communicate by mail and every now and then a phone call.
Then in August of 1958 I received my orders to Japan, and we left Mitchel and departed cross country.
Mr. JENNER. You and your wife and children?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. PIC. My second one.
Mr. JENNER. Second one?
Mr. PIC. I purchased my first one when I was stationed in Virginia. We arrived in Fort Worth, approximately 28, 29 October 1958. I remember we were in her house on Halloween night because I pulled the car up behind and locked the gates so I would not have my hub caps stolen.
Mr. JENNER. Where did she reside then?
Mr. PIC. I think you ought to refresh my memory on that. It was a little circle. Did she have an address with a little circle, some kind of circle or something?
Mr. JENNER. Do you have that?
Mr. PIC. What she lived on described the street, it was a circle, something like that.
Mr. JENNER. Her first house and apartment in New York was 325, that was your apartment, 325 East 92. And then she moved over to 1455 Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx, and then 825 East 179th Street in the Bronx. 3124 West Fifth Street, Fort Worth.
Mr. PIC. That isn't familiar.
Mr. JENNER. It is not familiar?
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