Jack was born a twin, with his brother Tom, on May 3, 1936. He went to Aliquippa High School and married his sweetheart Joyce (eloping first, followed by a church wedding), and together they raised five children in Hopewell Township. Jack was a tough man, so emblematic of the 1950s, rough around the edges and uncomfortable giving affection to anyone other than his wife, yet he was a superb dad and provider, supportive of his children, but bewildered and maybe out of place in the turbulent 60s and 70s that shaped his children's world. Taken way too early in 1978 at age 42 in a senseless work accident, his children never really got to know him as adults, a pain felt especially by his oldest son. If he were alive today, he would be overjoyed by his grandchildren, who never had a chance to know him at all. No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Jack was born a twin, with his brother Tom, on May 3, 1936. He went to Aliquippa High School and married his sweetheart Joyce (eloping first, followed by a church wedding), and together they raised five children in Hopewell Township. Jack was a tough man, so emblematic of the 1950s, rough around the edges and uncomfortable giving affection to anyone other than his wife, yet he was a superb dad and provider, supportive of his children, but bewildered and maybe out of place in the turbulent 60s and 70s that shaped his children's world. Taken way too early in 1978 at age 42 in a senseless work accident, his children never really got to know him as adults, a pain felt especially by his oldest son. If he were alive today, he would be overjoyed by his grandchildren, who never had a chance to know him at all. No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
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