{"id":2519,"date":"2014-06-09T19:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:26:52","slug":"jeanne-faranda-arrangements-for-my-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Jeanne Faranda &#8211; arrangements for my Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp; But first, couple more pictures &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents wedding, June 17, 1950<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a511ca669e970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11884\" title=\"June171950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a511ca669e970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a511ca669e970c-500wi-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And at my son Joe&#8217;s baptism in the fall of 1993. That&#8217;s Brigid grinning away, my $25 casio watch on display, and the smiling, extremely attractive woman is Kathy Brusstar. She was standing in as Godmother since the dual Godmother&#8217;s &#8211; Brigid&#8217;s sister Kate and niece Rachel &#8211; were both in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Dad Joe had died only a few months before, so the first really happy occasion for my mother &amp; with the new Joe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a3fd1aebe8970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11885\" title=\"N0_date_04A\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a3fd1aebe8970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a3fd1aebe8970b-500wi-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2014\/06\/jeanne-faranda.html\">Here&#8217;s the&nbsp; previous post about my mother<br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother&#8217;s wake is on Wednesday, at the Dorsey Funeral Home on Emwilton Ave. in Ossining, 2-4 and 7-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funeral is at Holy Name of Mary Church on Grand St. in Croton, 10AM Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; But first, couple more pictures &#8211; My parents wedding, June 17, 1950 And at my son Joe&#8217;s baptism in the fall of 1993. That&#8217;s Brigid grinning away, my $25 casio watch on display, and the smiling, extremely attractive woman is Kathy Brusstar. She was standing in as Godmother since the dual Godmother&#8217;s &#8211; Brigid&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11886,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/11886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}